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1. [[underline]] Exhibition series [[/underline]] - This series includes all specimens mounted for exhibition. Owing to the limited space on the museum floor the mounted specimens are not all on exhibition at the present time, but the unit boxes containing them are ready for display when space permits. Every specimen in this series is provided with either a written or printed label.

A system of marking the catalogue cards has been adopted which indicates at a glance when a specimen is in the exhibition series, and when a label has been written for the printer. The mark ⦿ on a catalogue card indicates that a [[illegible scratchout]] specimen is mounted for exhibition, & if followed by a check, thus ⦿√, the label for printing [[strikeout]] has be [[/strikeout]] is written.

The system of classification proposed some time ago in one of my reports, has been carried out [[illegible scratchout]] in a general way, but the collection is so broken up by the necessity of storing specimens that should