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Curators Reports 88-89
F. W. Frug

[[underline]]Mammals[[/underline]]

[[double underline]] Report on the Department of Mammals in the U.S. National Museum 1889.
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By [[underline]] Frederick W. True, Curator [[/underline]]

At the opening of the last fiscal year the preparations for the Ohio Valley Centennial Exposition which had occupied the month of June, were nearly completed.

A number of matters, however, remained unfinished, and the exposition work was not entirely off our hands until a month later. Early in the Fall the Curator was called upon to assist in the routine work of the Assistant Secretary's ^[[office]]. For this reason, and also because a considerable part of the time the Chief Taxidermist was occupied by special work, outside of his regular duties, the progress made in the department during