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TIio object of tlio General Appendix is to fiirnisli smniuarios of 

 ;;(;i('.iiti(ic disciovery in particular directions; occasional rejtorts of the 

 investi.ii'ations made by collaborators of the Institution; nienioirs of ;i 

 jj;eneral character or on special topics, whether orii^inal and prej)ar<Ml 

 expressly for the purpose, or selected from foreign journals and i)ro(;eed- 

 iiiffs; and briefly to present as (fully as space will permit) such i)apers 

 not published in the "Smithsonian (Jontributioiis" or in the "Miscella. 

 neons Collections" as may be supposed to b(> of interest or value to the 

 numerous correspondents of the Institution. 

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