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occupy my time during working hours if I devote myself to the per- 

 formance of its details. This work is important and should not be neg- 

 lected. I might add, in this connection, that I find my duties in the 

 ofiace sufiacient to require the attention and constant labor of three per- 

 sons instead of one, all of which now devolves on me. First, the daily 

 routine, just adverted to ; second, the re-arrangement of the specimens 

 in the Museum ; and third, the making of a catalogue and other scien- 

 tific and literary labor. The last is, in my judgment, the most impor- 

 tant and will be pressed forward with as much rapidity as the daily 

 routine will permit. 



