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The reception of 300 new trays during the year gave an opportunity long desired to place specimens in trays instead of loosely upon the shelves and bottoms of the cases. In November of 1888 one of the laborers was set to work re-painting the trays and cases. This required the removal and changing of the position from case to case of every tray and every specimen in the entire [[strikethrough]] museum [[/strikethrough]] collection. He has continued assiduously at this work until the present time, when it is about finished. 

During the last two and a half months of the year I have had [[strikethrough]] in the museum [[/strikethrough]] carpenters and laborers at work putting new shelves in the cases, where ever possible, to utilize vacant space (this work is not completed); placing shelves in the window-seats for the reception of the stone images from Central America and the West Indies, twenty of which are thus displayed; and the placing of castors under the tall upright cases, seventeen of which are thus arranged. This has been