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about thirty other mammals. A few of these were still without stands at the end of the year or could not be completely finished for the lack of materials, and the remainder were sent to the Cincinnati Exposition. The usual list will therefore, be held over for next year's report, when the work done for the Cincinnati Exposition will be reported upon in full. 

[[double underline]]Work upon the study series.[[/double underline]] - In addition to the regular routine work connected with the identification and cataloguing of new specimens, correspondence, the preparation of labels, &c. several special tasks were undertaken. The entire collection of skulls was furnished with uniform labels and the skins of the monkeys and carnivores also received fresh labels, it having been noticed in the latter case that many of the old labels were becoming illegible. It should be remarked here that the original labels received with the specimens are never removed unless, as sometimes happens, they are of absurdly large size.

A division was made of the skins, amounting to over 300, which had accumulated in the taxidermists tanks, some being assigned to the exhibition series and