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accommodations will probably be necessary in the course of a year or two. The new quarters consist of the western half of the old general storage room under the main part of the building, which has been fitted up with plain shelving, occupying all available space. The alcoholic collections are now distributed as follows: The small room originally assigned to this department contains the identified collections of Crustacea, and parts of those of other groups, and serves as an alcoholic workroom. The cases in the adjoining hall are used for the alcoholic Echini, while the Ophiurans and starfishes are stored in the next connecting hall leading to the new store room. The latter is filled mainly with unidentified collections and duplicates. The rearrangement of the alcoholic collections in the above order occupied several months, and advantage was taken of the general overhauling to renew the alcohol in nearly all