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These accessions represent the greater part of the material received 

 during the year. On the debit side, the Museum was impoverished by 

 the withdrawal of the Willcox collection, which had been a feature of 

 the mineral exhibit for over four years. Eight hundred specimens 

 were sent out to complete more than twenty exchanges, and sixteen 

 sets of duplicates were distributed to colleges and schools. 



The last catalogue number in June, 1888, was 47,837 ; in June 1889, 

 48,468. During the year 5,794 individual specimens weie catalogued. 

 The routine work of the department has been performed as usual by 

 the Assistant Curator, W. S. Yeates, with characteristic faithfulness 

 and efficiency. 



