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[[underlined]] Portraits of eminent men. [[/underlined]]

The portrait collection numbers several thousand [[strikethrough]] and it [[/strikethrough]] and has been [[strikethrough]] greatly ine [[/strikethrough]] enlarged during the year by the addition of several hundred engravings of eminent Americans and foreigners.  Much work has been done in mounting on standard cards.
A complete catalogue has not yet been made.
There have been on exhibition [[strikethrough]] for a coll [[/strikethrough]] several hundred engraved portraits of ^[[some of the]] [[strikethrough]] most [[/strikethrough]] eminent scientists of the past [[strikethrough]] three [[/strikethrough]] four centuries