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^[[Comp. Anat. Jan-June 1883]]
^[[underlined]] copied for reports Regents & Nat Mus [[/underlined]]
^[[underlined]] L 5 upper [[/underlined]]
[[Letterhead]]
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
UNDER DIRECTION OF
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
WASHINGTON ^[[Nov. 9. 1885.]]
[[/Letterhead]]

[[underlined]] Brief Report on the Operations of the Department of Comparative Anatomy from January 1 to July 1, 1885. [[/underlined]]


Early in the year a number of exhibition cases were set up in the East-south ranges and in latter part of February a provisional arrangement of the exhibition-series of vertebrate skeletons was effected.  A month later the entire collection of bird skeletons was brought from the Smithsonian building and stored in the [[range?]] . An arrangement was made with the [[?]] of the Army Medical Museum for the exchanges of a collection of human skulls for skulls and skeletons of North American vertebrates.  The first installments

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Seems the page got wet or the ink was terribly watery.