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part of the Bureau of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy of the Dept. of Agriculture, to deposit its collections of North American mammals in the Museum, if suitable cases for their reception were provided.  As the Chief of the Bureau expressed a preference for metallic cases, it was finally decided to adopt such cases for the entire study-series.  Two large sample zinc storage-cases and a smaller tin-case were obtained in Cambridge, Mass., and brought into use.  As a further experiment, one compartment in the large storage-base in the Osteological hall was lined with tin - and furnished with a dust-tight front, and one of the three-quarter unit tables in the South hall was also made dust-tight.  These have proved very satisfactory during the short time that they have been in use, and the Curator has recommended that all the bases in the Exhibition-hall of the department be remodeled in the same manner. The drawers in the large tin-lined com-