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and the impossibility of deciding what the old number should be.
Total number of new Entries 72,376 to 72, 560 inclusive-             185.
  Besides these two hundred and seventeen <217> miscellaneous specimens, collected by J. T. Brown, illustrative of the Whale fisheries, were briefly entered early in this mouth, but it was deemed expedient