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and disinfected, and in this manner preserve this important collec- 
tion from the ravages of museum pests. 
I have also had strips of listing placed wherever pdssible in the 
doors of the large exhibition cases, to exclude dust and soot. All 
of these cases have likewise been thoroughly fumigated with cam- 
phor, naphthaline and crude carbolic acid. 
I have begun the work of relabeling the specimens in a manner 
so that they can be read and understood by visitors, with the least 
possible fatigue to the eyes. Many of the specimens were wrongly 
labeled in regard to scientific names, which I have corrected so far 
as | have gone. As an example of this work, I would ask your 
attention to the large case of mammals on the second floor, next to 
the front of the building. 
I find that there has been but little or no attempt at a proper 
classification of the zoological specimens in the cases, owing doubt- 
less to a lack of room; this feature, however, can receive the 
attention it deserves when the contemplated new addition to our 
building is erected, and for this reason I shall not attempt to make 
any radical change for the present in the arrangement of the speci- 
mens, though a few necessary changes can, and will be, made at 
once. My principal care for the present will be given to the pres- 
ervation ofthe specimens, and to their thorough and constant dis- 
infection, and to their proper and correct labeling. 
I am under obligations to Mr. E. O. Ulrich, Curator of Geology, 
who has kindly verified and corrected the labels of the fossils of 
the Cincinnati Group. 
There have been many valuable and desirable additions to the 
Museum during the past year, among which may be mentioned 
the ‘* Garratt Collection’ of Ethnology and Mineralogy ; a num- 
ber of mounted mammals and birds and alcoholic specimens of 
reptiles and batrachians from Mr. Charles Dury; a pair of 
mounted antique Roman horns from Miss Clara Campbell, etc. 
The following members have also donated various specimens to the 
Museum during the past year: Wm. Hubbell Fisher, E. O. Hurd, 
oer Clarke, Dr. J. A; Henshall; Herbert Jenney, Dr.-O. D. 
Norton, Dr. A. B. Heighway, E. B. Johnson, Dr. R. S. Michel, 
ies |) lowe, and Dr.-N. E Jones: 
From others, not members of the Society, as follows: C. P. 
Yeatman, Dr. C. H. Ware, Mrs. Henshall, Arthur Whitney, O. 
P. Hamar, Dr. C. G. Curtis, W. H. Wyman, Willie Jones, Direct- 
