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Much progress has been made in the permanent arrangement of the general reserve collections, and many duplicates have been distributed to institutions of learning throughout the country. The card or reference catalogue of the identified specimens has been kept up to date, and now covers a large part of the collection.

The workrooms of this department were closed from the first of July until the last of October, the Curator and his assistants taking part in the investigations of the Fish Commission at Woods Hole, Mass., during that period.