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[[underline]] L.I. lower True Ann rep '87 [[/underline]]
[[triple underline]] Report on the Department of Mammals in the U.S. National Museum, 1887. [[/triple underline]]
By [[double underline]] Frederick W. True [[/double underline]], [[underline]] Curator [[/underline]].

[[marginalia]] 1 Copy
9-12-87.
L.[[R?]]

Miss Tabler
18^[[vo]] copy
RJG.
Aug. 29. [[/marginalia]]

[[strikethrough]] Report on the operations of the Department of Mammals for the year ending June 30, 1887. 

I [[/strikethrough]]

[[double underline]] General Review [[/double underline]]

The most important operation of the year was the commencement of a re-arrangement of the exhibition hall.  Of the movable cases which were in the hall at the close of the last year but one remains and the wall-cases have been remodelled and added to.

The new floor cases depart from the standard originally adopted for other sections of the Museum.  Their size and proportion were determined upon after a careful study of the material to be exhibited, and the collection is, therefore, seen to a much greater advantage