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maintained a table at the Wood’s Hole Biological Laboratory. 
It was occupied through the season by Mr. H. W. Fowler. 
Much of the work accomplished during the past year in the 
arrangement of the collections is described in detail in the reports 
of the Botanical, Conchological, Ornithological and Mineralogical 
Sections which follow, while the more important work of other 
departments is briefly outlined below. 
Mr. Stone has spent the greater part of the spring and summer 
in the arrangement of the reptiles and batrachians, with the result 
that all the groups not handled last year have been catalogued and 
systematically arranged and many unidentified specimens named. 
Mr. Fowler has continued his study of, and completely rearranged 
and relabeled the carp-like and deep-sea fishes, the eels and their 
allies, and the Cyprinodonts, comprising about two-fifths of the 
entire collection. 
During the year the whole series of alcoholic vertebrates have 
been carefully examined and the alcohol replenished. 
The mammalian skeletons and skulls have all been relabelled 
wilh special tags and a systematic card catalogue of all the mammal 
collections, has been prepared by Mr. Rehn. 
In the Archaeological department Miss H. N. Wardle has cata¬ 
logued and arranged a large number of specimens, including most 
of the Haldeman Collection. 
Through the generosity of Dr. L. T. Chamberlain, Mr. C. W. 
Johnson has continued his care of the Isaac Lea Collection of 
Eocene Mollusca. Six hundred and fifteen species have been 
added during the year, mainly through exchange. 
Many important additions to the collections have been received 
since the preparation of the last report. The Zoological Society of 
Philadelphia has presented a number of specimens, one of the 
most notable being a full-grown Indian Rhinoceros, which has been 
mounted by Mr. David McCadden, the taxidermist. 
Mr. Y. Hirase, of Kyoto, has continued to add most liberally 
to the conchological collection, furnishing many rare and hitherto 
unknown species. Mr. Arthur Erwin Brown has added largely to 
the department of reptiles, while a fine series of Porto Rican fishes 
was received from the United States Fish Commission. 
Dr. A. Donaldson Smith presented a number of valuable birds, 
mammals and mollusks secured during his recent expedition to Lake 
