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during the year, in the arrangement of all the collections in the department, which are now in better condition than ever before, notwithstanding that much time was necessarily occupied in caring for the new materials received. The west hall of the Smithsonian Institution, intended for the exhibition of marine invertebrates, was used, as during 1884 and 1885, as a general workroom and storeroom, but in June last it was permanently opened to the public. The display series contained in the wall cases surrounding this hall remains in the same condition as heretofore, but four additional upright cases and four table cases have been supplied, and these are now temporarily filled with corals, crinoids, echinoderms, and other showy and instructive forms.  All of the dried specimens of the general collection that could not be stored under the exhibition cases, have been transferred to the northwest gallery of the bird hall,