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^[[Nov 23]] [[preprinted]] WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, CHICAGO, 1893. DEPARTMENT OF ETHNOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY. F. W. PUTNAM. Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, CHIEF OF DEPARTMENT. PEABODY MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. [[/preprinted]] Worcester, Mass. Nov. 14th, 1891 Miss Alice Fletcher, Fort Lapwai Indian Reservation, Lewiston, Id. Dear Madam: I have been authorized by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to ask the cooperation of superintendents of Indian schools in collecting measurements of school children. Wherever possible I prefer to have the measurements taken by outside observers and have them repeated after an interval of half a year and a year by the superintendent. Will you kindly let me know whether you included in your measurements the children at the Fort Lapwai ^ [[and]] Nez Perce Boarding Schools. If not^[[,]] I intend to write the Superintendent. I shall be greatly obliged if you will kindly send me such record blanks as you may have filled. So far as possible I desire to keep track of the results obtained, as these sometimes make it desirable to extend these investigations in certain directions. Yours very truly ^[[Franz Dorr]]