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Transactions of the St. Louis Academy of Science, Volume YIII, 

 1898. The entire exhibition and a large part of the study series were 

 overhauled, partly rearranged, and many of the specimens reduced 

 in size by careful trimming. Much progress was made in the num- 

 bering of specimens and the preparation of the card catalogue. The 

 investigations carried on were almost entirely limited to the work 

 of the paleobotanists of the Geological Survey. Dr. A. C. Peale was 

 detailed for service in connection with the explorations of the 

 Geological Survey in Montana during the summer of 1907. 



DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS. 



Of the regular sets of duplicate specimens prepared for educa- 

 tional puiposes 152 were distributed during the year, as follows: 

 Sixty-one of nonmetallic minerals and ores, 53 of fossil invertebrates, 

 24 of rocks, 8 of minerals, 3 of weathered rocks, and 3 of marine 

 invertebrates. The total number of specimens included in these sets 

 was 8,471, besides which nearly 3,500 specimens were sent out in 

 special sets. 



Including the material to be worked up for publication by the 

 Museum, there were placed in the hands of specialists not officially 

 connected with it, for study, G,215 specimens from the department of 

 biology, 2,844 from the department of geology, and 29 from the 

 department of anthropology, a total of 9.0S8 specimens. 



In carrvino* on exchanges with scientific institutions and indi- 

 viduals 13,993 duplicate specimens were used. Of this number 1,630 

 were geological, 153 anthropological, and 12,210 zoological and 

 botanical. An idea of the extent of the Museum's relations in this 

 regard may be obtained from the following list of establishments and 

 individuals abroad with which exchanges were made during the 

 year. Among the establishments were the British Museum of Natural 

 History, London, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Hancock 

 Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England; the Museum of Natural 

 History, Elbeuf, France; the Kiiniglisches Botanisches Museum, the 

 Koniglisches Zoologisches Museum, Berlin, and the Stiidtisches 

 Museum fiir Volkerkunde, Leipzig, Germany; the Jardin Botanique 

 de I'Etat, Brussels, Belgium; the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen, 

 Denmark; the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden; 

 Teyler's Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands; Botanical Museum of the 

 LTniversity of Lausanne, Switzerland ; the Royal Zoological Museum, 

 Turin, Italy; Royal Museum of Natural History, Vienna, Austria; 

 the Plungarian National INIuseum, Budapest, Himgary; the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Calcutta, India ; the Albany ISIuseum, Grahams- 

 town, Cape Colony, South Africa ; the Waihi School of Mines, Auck- 

 land, New Zealand; the Institute de Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, 



