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ing therefor drawers and cases made after the unit plan of the Museum. 

 Many of the specimens for this exhibit were furnished from my pri- 

 vate collection, and it has been prepared upon the understanding with 

 the proper authorities that it is, when returned to Washington, to form 

 part of the Museum collection. 



In closing this brief report I cannot refrain from repeating the rec- 

 ommendations of previous years both as to the utilization of the 

 plates purchased of the late Prof. Townend Glover and as to the ne- 

 cessity of placing the department upon a secure financial basis. 



Mr. Glover's plates and notes on the Diptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, 

 and cotton insects have already been published, in very limited edition, 

 as "Manuscript Notes from my Journal." Those of the remaining or- 

 ders comprise about 200 plates, which can be printed from by Mr. A. G. 

 Gedney, of this city (who formerly printed for Glover and has made 

 me his estimates), for $13.50 per 1,000 copies, quarto impressions. The 

 printing of an edition of 1,000 would, therefore, cost about $270, while 

 the printing of such text as would be necessary could probably be done 

 for about $500 additional. 



Several valuable collections have, as during previous years, been 

 offered for sale at remarkably low rates, some of which I have pur- 

 chased individually and deposited with the »est of my collections. The 

 need of a salaried assistant is each year more obvious, not only for the 

 reasons stated in previous reports, but as a guarantee of the proper 

 future care, in case of my death or removal from the city, of the ento- 

 mological material already in the Museum, and as a further guarantee 

 to specialists that type collections, if donated, will have proper appre- 

 ciation and preservation. 



