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Smithsonian building, assigned to this department for exhibition purposes; was used for storing the general dried collection, pending the renovation of the bird hall, in one of the galleries of which it is regularly kept. This work being finished in the spring, the exhibition hall was again made ready for the public, the cases being newly painted on the inside, and the display collections rearranged by the curator. The alcoholic specimens in the basement storerooms were all gone over during the year, and the following groups, including both