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staff and on our budget. The exponce in farsa alata will be cnormouas we can anticipate reesiving enough separate Lots to £L1LL between |
20,000 and 30,0G0 jars, far in oxcess of cur cursent stock of jaro.”
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Under our- present’ cataloging system, informtton on dictribution
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the collection by hand. It would be a step Cerward if we could obtain
( support to canvert existing records on the Paciffe invartebratas into:
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