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the jars and bottles. The old alcohol was at once redistilled and used again, and new alcohol was employed only where full strength was required.
     
All of the accessions received during the year have been assorted and catalogued, and some of the groups sent away to specialists for study. The fine series of stalked crinoids obtained by the steamer Albatross in the Gulf of Mexico, during the past three years, has been transferred to large glass jars for safe storage, and every specimen labeled separately. The entire collection of starfishes contributed by the Fish Commission, and representing the deep sea explorations of the steamers Albatross and Fish Hawk, has been carefully gone over, and the reserve series selected out and properly arranged. Large numbers of specimens were dried and many duplicates set aside for distribution and exchange.