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Graphic Arts. It is now proposed to complete the labelling in this manner, leaving the collections for the present in essentially their actual condition, with the exception of such additions as it may be possible to make meanwhile. The next step will be the systematic cataloguing of all the material on hand, and the endeavor to procure such additional specimens as are needed to compete the various series. This done, the whole collection can be re-arranged according to the catalogue and a manual of it can be prepared for the use of students. The exhibition of "The Reproductive Arts" arranged by me at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at the beginning of this year (1892), and the catalogue prepared for the same exhibition, were preliminaries studies on the basis of which the more extensive scheme planned for the U.S. National Museum is to be carried out.