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have not been deemed suitable for exhibition, for various reasons, and these have been placed in the study series. The collection of wools in bottles received from the Department, is a good one.

A collection of American and foreign wools from Mr. George W. Bond, of Boston. This is an exceedingly valuable collection, the specimens having been carefully selected by Mr. Bond, who is a recognized authority on wools. More than one hundred different wools have been selected for exhibition, and these, in connection with the specimens from the Department of Agriculture, when installed in museum cases in the manner adopted, will make the largest & most complete collection of wools to be found.

(2) The routine work consists in the identification & cataloguing of specimens for exhibition, and the examination of such as are sent to the museum for reports concerning their value for manufacturing purposes. After a specimen is catalogued it is either placed on exhibition immediately or held in reserve, or put in the study series.

(3) The only scientific [[strikethrough]][[?]][[/strikethrough]][[?]][[/strikethrough]] studies that have been conducted in this section are such as [[strikethrough]] have been required in the ordinary course of [[strikethrough]][[?]][[/strikethrough]] identifying fibres of uncertain character. There has been no opportunity to prosecute original investigations. An article on the "Study of Vegetable Fibres" was published by the curator in the [[underlined]] Amer. Micr. Journ. [[/underlined]] VI p.23, & a "Method of Analysis of Fibres, Tissues etc."