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The same changes also required that all of the alcoholic collections be 

 removed from the west basement, and they have been transferred to 

 temporary storage elsewhere. The exhibition hall itself has been 

 turned into a large store-room and work-room, where many of the alco- 

 holic specimens are now safely stored for the summer. Advantage was 

 taken of this opportunity to inspect all the alcoholic materials, in order 

 to ascertain the condition of the specimens and to renew the preserva- 

 tive where necessary. 



Mr. A. H. Baldwin and Miss M. J. Eathbun have acted as my assist- 

 ants throughout the year, and Mr. Delano Ames served as a volunteer 

 during May and June. Mr. Baldwin has had special charge of the sort- 

 ing and care of collections, and has rendered valuable aid in the delin- 

 eation of specimens for the Museum reports. Miss Eathbun has been 

 occupied mainly with office work and cataloguing. 



STATEMENT OF CATALOGUING DONE DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 



1887. 



Invertebrates. 



Crustacea 



Worms 



Bryozoa and Ascidians 



Echinoderms and Ccelenterates 

 Sponges and Protozoans 



Totals 



Entries to 



June 30, 



1886. 



11,610 



1, 352 



829 



14, 771 



5, 328 



33, 890 



Entries to 

 June 30, 



1887. 



12, 606 



3,963 



959 



16, 183 

 5,431 



39, 142 



Number of 

 entries made 

 during year. 



996 

 2,611 



130 

 1,412 



103 



5, 252 



^The following institutions have been supplied with sets of duplicates 

 belonging to Series IV during the fiscal year ending Julyl, 1887. (These 

 sets consist of about 105 species each, selected from the collections of 

 marine invertebrates received from the U. S. Fish Commission) : Berk- 

 shire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts ; Museum of Natural His- 

 tory of the State University of Iowa; Earlham College, Eichmond, In- 

 diana; Nebraska Fish Commission, Nebraska; Wilmington College, 

 Wilmington, Ohio; Saint John's Ecclesiastical Seminary, Brighton, 

 Massachusetts ; Sherbrocke Library, Art, and Natural History Associ- 

 ation, Sherbrooke, Cauada; Moore's Hill College, Moore's Hill, Indiana; 

 Chelsea High School, Chelsea, Massachusetts; Hyde Park High School, 

 Hyde Park, Illinois; State Normal School, Emporia, Kansas; Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts ; Washburn 

 College, Topeka, Kansas ; Cairo Public Schools, Cairo, Illinois ; De- 

 troit High School, Detroit, Michigan ; Northwestern College, Naper- 

 ville, Illinois; State Agricultural and Mechanical College, College 

 Station, Texas; Pennsylvania College, Gettysburgh, Pennsylvania; 

 Western Normal College, Shenandoah, Iowa; Fremont College, Fre- 

 mont, Nebraska ; Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois; Bridgton Academy, 

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