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UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
Under direction of 
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Washington
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[[underline]]  Operations of the Department of Mammals and Comparative Anatomy for the six months ending June 30, 1885.  [[/underline]]

By the beginning of the year 1885 the work of the Department incident upon the preparation of a collection to be exhibited in New Orleans was entirely completed and the regular routine was resumed.

The mammal exhibition hall had been rendered less attractive than formerly by the removal of numerous large specimens to New Orleans and a temporary re-arrangement of the collection was attempted in order to make the deficiencies less conspicuous.  During the first quarter of the