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parts of the museum in charge of a professor of botany with a zoological assistant Senor Prof. Alfonso L. Herrera, Hijo.  The collection contains a poor series of mounted birds & mammals of the country with alcoholics of fishes & reptiles. The collection is very badly labelled with almost a total lack of data as to locality, date & collector which are generally considered indispensible. 

In the birds & mammals, not a little of the common species are represented and the museum is wholly without any study specimens except those mounted for exhibition.

The library is also extremely scanty so that the naturalists in charge labor under the greatest difficulty in identifying their material. Some additions are being made to the archaeological series & the botanical department is taking a series of plants from Mr. Pringle but the zoological department appears to be at a standstill.