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and has been used as heretofore. The gallery assigned to this department has been better fitted up as a general work room, bu the transfer to other quarters of a part of the collections previously kept there, and the introduction of many conveniences for the storage and assorting of collections. The small room in the west basement, hitherto used for the unpacking of alcoholic specimens and the storage of the type collections of that character, has been so darkened by the building of a large structure alongside its windows that it is no longer adapted to such