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It will be noticed that the exhibition series is smaller than at the close of the previous year.  This is due to the fact that when the new exhibition cases were received a large number of old mounted skins, which were in a more or less dilapidated condition, were withdrawn from exhibition and placed among the duplicates.  This replacement of defective specimens by good ones must go on gradually for several years, until the collection is entirely renovated.  The number of specimens actually added during the year was thirty-two.

Among the accessions were about sixty species and sub-species not previously represented in the collection.

The number of skins and specimens in alcohol added and distributed during