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are under consideration, however, and the curator hopes to be in a position to recommend the adoption of some one of them in the immediate future.

The skins of large mammals, which have accumulated during the past twenty five years being at present, as already stated, stored in large boxes arranged in tiers in the South entrance of the museum building are almost inaccessible for study.  Better provisions for them and for the large skins recently received from the taxidermists are much to be desired. A partial reconstruction of the storage cases now in the laboratory and the addition of one new case would be all that is necessary for the present.

The mammals in alcohol deterior-