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No further progress has been made in the arrangement of the collection of patents. 


The last number entered on the catalogue of the Section of Graphic Arts for the year ending June 30, 1891, having been 4797, and the corresponding number for the year now under consideration being 4976, it follows that the number of entries during the year has been 179. As some few of these entries represent more than one specimen, the number of accessions may be given in round numbers at about 200. Of these specimens 42 were bought at an expense of $250.60. A list of the donors is [[strikethrough]] given [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] included [[/insertion]] in Section V. No statistics can be given, for the present, of the reserve and duplicate series.