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changes, to the best advantage of the collections under his care ; 

 and further, to take the proper steps for the final exhibition of 

 the Mammals and Birds in the new building. 



As Dr. Steindachner will accompany me on the Deep Sea 

 Dredging Expedition, Messrs. Bliss and Lockwood are charged 

 with the care of the Reptiles and Fishes in his absence. I ex- 

 pect that they will together look to the safe-keeping of this most 

 extensive and laborious department of the Museum. Mr. Bliss 

 is more particularly directed to complete his examination of the 

 collection of Fishes from the Himalaya Mountains, which we 

 owe to the Rev. M. M. Carleton of Umbala, and also to prepare 

 his monograph of the Ichthelid^ (Poraotis, Centrachus, <fec,), 

 for publication, while Mr. Lockwood is to arrange the Characines. 



Mr. J. G. Anthony, with his two young assistants, will con- 

 tinue the arrangement and identification of the Shells, and 

 especially attend to the critical identification of the specimens, 

 and the preparation of collections for the use of the State Nor- 

 mal Schools, the Agricultural Colleges, and the Girls' High and 

 Normal School in Boston. His long acquaintance with my aims 

 in the Museum renders it superfluous that I should give him 

 special instructions. The alcoholic collections of Mollusks will 

 unfortunately remain for another year in their present state, as 

 Mr. Blake, who lately had begun their arrangement, is to accom- 

 pany me during the Deep Sea Dredging Expedition. 



Dr. Hagen has presented to me so comprehensive a plan of 

 the arrangement he proposes to carry out in the management of 

 his department, that I need only say here, that I have referred 

 him to his own report of last year for instructions. But the 

 class of Insects is so numerous, and our stores already so ex- 

 tensive, that, in order to accelerate the final exhibition of the 

 whole, I have appointed Mr. Boll and a young pupil of Dr. Ha- 

 gen, to help him in the work. Mr. Boll is especially directed 

 to put up all the insects requiring a new setting, and to prepare 

 the way for extensive exchanges by eliminating the duplicates 

 from the collection proper, and, in the most suitable seasons, 

 gathering additional material for this purpose. As this work 

 advances. Dr. Hagen is instructed to prepare entomological col- 

 lections for the Normal Schools, on the same basis as those 

 already in progress for the shells. 



