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In that year, however, the present Secretary, -- then Assistant Secretary --, deposited his own cabinet of geological specimens, which [[strikethru]]consisted[[/strikethru]] comprised not only a large number of birds, reptiles, fishes and other specimens, but also a series of "skins of the principal mammalia of the northern and the middle States, and of eastern Europe, with numerous specimens of the smaller species: preserved in alcohol." + Together [[strikethru]]we[[/strikethru]] with these were [[dotted line]] + Rep't Smithsonian Inst. for 1850, p. 42 [[dotted line]] a large number of skulls and skeletons and some embryos in alcohol. These specimens were never withdrawn , but may be [[strikethru]]to-day[[/strikethru]] found to-day in the general series, except such [[image: almost vertical line, crossed near the top and bottom]] as have been dissected, distributed to other institutions, or ^[[otherwise]] of for special purposes – 1850 to 1860. [[Double underline]]Collections of Expeditions under the Government.[[/double underline]] At the opening of this decade this Institution inaugurated that great system