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efficient and sufficient curators can be maintained for their 
preservation. I have repeatedly examined collections in local 
museums utterly ruined and destroyed by mites, damp, and 
dust. It is as necessary in this case as in every other, to cut 
the coat according to the cloth, and nothing is sadder than to 
see the work of a lifetime wasted in this way, specimens in- 
valuable to science being irretrievably lost. 
However, this is a matter for the distant future, but when it 
does come, our Society will be able to make a very valuable 
contribution to the local deposits. 
DDS AS 
