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to science. This vast series of fishes is available to recognised 

 students, and scientific men from all over the world come to the 

 museum to work on some of the specimens. Every year some 

 thousand or more new examples are added to the existmg 

 collection, and it is one of the duties of the curator to see that 

 these are correctly named and incorporated with the others. 

 Many are obtained through the medium of large expeditions 

 sent out to various regions of the world, but even more owe 

 their existence in the museum to the good offices of explorers, 

 travellers, and others resident in foreign countries, who have 

 spent their spare time in amassing collections in Htde known 

 parts of the world to enrich the National Museum. 



