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considerable number in the collection.

The experiments upon large storage-jars, mentioned in the last report, resulted in the adoption of spherical glass jar, with wooden tops and iron clamps, for the storage of large alcoholic specimens.  Six of these jars were brought into use and others have been ordered.

The ordinary routine work was greatly increased by the deposit of a large amount of material by the Department of Agriculture.  More than thirty-one hundred pieces belonging to this deposit, - comprising both skins and skulls, - were entered and numbered during the year.  In