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[[underlined]] Work in the general collection. [[/underlined]]

At the beginning of the year the office and laboratory of the Department [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] were removed from the south balcony to the first floor of the Southwest pavilion.  [[strikethrough]] All the entire collection of skins, except three the mounted-series and [[/strikethrough]]

The large skins, the alcoholics, and a certain part of the smaller skins were brought together in the laboratory.  A case was also planned to contain the remainder of small skins.  Before the end of the year the whole of the duplicate and reserve series will be brought together in this room.  The advantages of this change are very great.

Very little work was done upon the reserve series, beyond that of poisoning newly acquired skins, and selecting series of specimens desired by different parties for study, dissection, &c. or to serves as exchanges.  Reference to these exchanges