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UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
UNDER DIRECTION OF
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
WASHINGTON
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distinct categories. The first, and very much the larger and more important, is not sent to the Museum but to myself, personally, as a supposed ornithological expert; but such material and correspondence I have always treated as an official matter, [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] memoranda of accession ("temporary") being duly prepared and sent to the Registrar and my replies to the senders of specimens copied in the official letter-books of the Department of Birds, as required by Articles XVIII (last clause) and XLIII of regulations of 1889 1 [[checkmark]]. Accession cards for

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1 [[checkmark]] I was unaware that any change had been made in these regulations until receipt of your circular of April 16, 1895, and supposed this to relate only to material [[underlined]] submitted [[/underlined]] — not to that received directly by the Curator, [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] the distinctness of the two classes of material being always kept in view.