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necessitated a careful study of all articles bearing on fishing. Dr. J.F. Bransford, U.S.N., was occupied during a part of the year in writing an account of his latest explorations in Central America, and describing the specimens there collected. Mr. W.H. Holmes, of the Bureau of Ethnology, has, for literary purposes, examined the shell objects and ceramic specimens in this Department.

I have devoted all my time, not spent in routine work, to my publication on fishing, and have therefore not composed smaller articles, excepting one on "Indian Stone Graves", which appeared in the "American Naturalist" for Feb. 1883, p. 130 - 34.

[[underlined]] Present State of ^[[the]] Collection.[[/underlined]]
Number of specimens.
1. In reserve series 8043.
2. On exhibition 24731.
3. Duplicates 7717.
4. Total 40491.

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