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9 [[underline]] Chemicals, Foods, Gums, Dyes etc. [[/underline]] [[blue line down entire left margin]] A statement of the number of specimens in the reserve, exhibition & duplicate series would be of no significance at present, for the reason that the numbers [[strikethrough]] would [[/strikethrough]] will be totally changed within a week of the time of writing. In order to properly arrange the exhibition series, it will be necessary to withdraw all the specimens from the cases & reclassify them, for the reason that during my absence many changes & additions were made without much regard to the plan of classification. Another reason is that it is desirable to withdraw from exhibition entirely certain series of specimens, to make room