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the year has not been so great as it would have been under more favorable conditions.

The exhibition series has received more important additions than, perhaps, during any other year. The collection contains representations of a large number of families of mammals than ever before. A portion of these specimens were received in exchange, others were purchased, and the remainder originally formed a part of the series exhibited in the Cincinnati Exhibition. 

The groups of Prairie Dogs and Opossums, the first of a series intended to represent the smaller forms peculiar to North America, were placed in new, specially-designed cases. The series of casts of Cetaceans, which forms a special feature of the collections of the Museum, was renovated and completed.

Attention was directed afresh to the matter of providing better storage-cases for the study-series.