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Routine Work.

As in previous years, the Curator and his assistants participated in the summer explorations of the Fish Commission at Woods Holl, Mass., leaving Washington July 4, and returning about the middle of October. During that period work was entirely suspended in this department in Washington, but was actively continued at Woods Holl. The duties there comprised the sorting and working up of the zoological materials brought in by the steamer Albatross, and by