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those two services are authorized and instructed to telegraph to the Smithsonian Institution the stranding of large marine animals upon the coast.  Several highly important cetaceans have already been received as the fruit of this admirable plan.  Renewed efforts have been made to induce the proprietors of zoological gardens and menageries [[strikethrough]] and dealers in live a [[/strikethrough]] to send dead animals to the Museum, [[strikethrough]] rather than to allow [[/strikethrough]] and many generous responses have been received.  The negotiations of the [[strikethrough]] officers of the Museum who were de [[/strikethrough]] Commissioner to the London Fisheries Exhibition and of the curator of the department with the authorities of some of the leading European museums have led to a revival of the system of exchanges as affects the mammalia.

[[?]] the [[strikethrough]] three [[/strikethrough]] four years under consideration the register-number of skins has advanced from 13265 to 14715 showing an increase of 1450 specimens.  In addition 991 skeletons