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others. Some additional work has been done in perfecting and verifying the information on the labels, but as this must be done with great care to be of any service it proceeds slowly.   The alcoholics were placed on the shelves and arranged as far as possible. Much work, however, remains to be done in this direction. 

The ordinary routine work of cataloguing, labeling, and sorting new accessions was carried on as usual.

Catalogue-entries of specimens deposited by the Department of Agriculture, to the number of ^[[11,704,]] were made by our clerks. The entries of previous years were copied together in a single book, and the record of the deposit under consideration now forms a separate section in the series of Museum catalogues.   Five preparators were occupied in cleaning the skulls belonging to this collection, either as employees of the Museum, or as contractors.   The number of persons so employed was reduced or increased from time to time as circumstances demanded. The number of skulls cleaned was      [[blank space]]. In addition, the taxidermists of the Museum have made up a con-