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Kew Gardens ^[[England.]] Several specimens were received from W. H. Schieffelin & Co., in response to special request.  [[line drawn to signify continuing sentence with next paragraph]] The ^[[Exhibition series of]] [[strikethrough]]] display in [[/strikethrough]] this Section, is, essentially, as left by Dr. Flint,^[[the first curator of this collection]] [[strikethrough]] my predecessor [[/strikethrough]]. 

[[Paragraph symbol]] The following table shows the number of specimens in the varies series.

Exhibition series -------------- 3346
Reserve " [[ditto for series]]  -------------- 1223
Duplicate ' [[ditto for series]] --------------  859

^[[In addition there are the following also:]]

Colored plates      662
Photographs         102
Herbarium specimens  60
Micrographs          38 ---------  862
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                                  6290

^[[The l]]ast catalogue entry ^[[in]] June 1891 ^[[was]] 142225 ^[[, and in]] [[strikethrough]] Last Catalogue entry [[/strikethrough]] June 1892^[[,]]  142280.

[[strikethrough]] G. Brown Goode
Asst Secty. [[/strikethrough]]

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Very respectfully,
 Wm S. Dixon
Hon Curator.[[/strikethrough]]