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and several skins of the Sea-lions of the Galapagos Islands.

Two mounted skins of the West Indian Seal, [[underline]] Monachus tropicalis [[/underline]], were received from Prof. H.A. Ward, in exchange. 

As must necessarily be the case each year, the routine work which occupied the most time was the identification, cataloguing, and labeling of accessions. A new card-catalogue was made of the skins which have accumulated in the tanks in the taxidermist's shop. When specimens are mounted, or, distributed, the cards corresponding to them are removed from the catalogue, and it is always possible, therefore, to determine what material is really in the hands of the taxidermists.  A large number of alcoholic specimens were measured preparatory to their being converted into dry skins, but for the reasons already given, the taxidermists were unable to begin work upon them. 

The matter of providing new storage-cases for the study-series was brought to a head by the offer on the