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This new classification [[strikethrough]] re- [[/strikethrough]] arrangement and of my Department is such a departure from former procedures as that it may justify a few sentences of explanation. [[strikethrough]] and justification. [[/ strikethrough]]

The [[strikethrough]] mode of [[/strikethrough]] arrangement in former times was to exhibit all objects of one kind together, classifying them according to function.  [[strikethrough]] Thus: all the [[/strikethrough]] ^[[As has been described.]]

This [[strikethrough]] method of [[/strikethrough]] classification [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] undoubtly served a good purpose in its beginning, but it had wrought out that purpose and Dr. Rau declares in his last report, contained in the Smithosnian Annual Report for 1886, p. 111, that [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] the ^[[collection]] would be ultimately arranged geographically. Such, therefore, was his intention at the time of his death and I do