The term specimens of natural history' comprehends only articles imported for the cabinet of the naturalist, and has no cation to living animals."

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* Vases adorned with figures, constituting their chief value, cannot be considered "statuary."

Nor can a pedestal, the work of an American artist abroad, which is neither surmounted nor accomponied by but designed for statuary made in the United States.

But in case of an importation of a marble monument composed of several pieces of statuary, entitled to free e or production of an American artist, the base or pedestal is also exempt from duty when imported with the state that the entire work is that of an American artist residing abroad.

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