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[[green pencil]]GBG[[/green pencil]] [[pencil]]L 5 upper.[[/pencil]] [[preprinted]] UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM UNDER DIRECTION OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION WASHINGTON [[/preprinted]] [[stamp]]S43197[[/stamp]] April 3. 1885 Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report upon the operations of the Department of Mammals during the months of January, February and March of the present year. At the end of January the transference of the office of the Department, which had been some time under consideration, was effected. The collections, sectional library, office fittings and miscellaneous property of the Department were removed from the South tower to the lower floor of the Southwest pavilion. The new laboratory is sufficiently large to contain all the large skins belonging to the duplicate series, the entire alcoholic