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logical Survey, it is impossible to give any considerable amount of time 



to labeling the old collection and preparing it for exhibition. 



The administrative duties of the department are attended to, and all 

 the office work of the writer and two assistants adds to the ralueof 



the collections, as the material worked over and studied is transferred 

 when fully prepared to the Museum collections. 



B I -COMMENDATIONS. 



It is respectfully suggested that provision be made by the Museum for 

 the employment of an assistant, who shall be engaged in work connected 

 with the Paleozoic collections of fossils. It is required, in order to put 

 the old collections on exhibition and to record and take care of the ac 

 cessions. 



S. Mis. 33, pt. 2 14 



