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November23, 1923.

Dr. A. B. Jenks, National Research Council,
1781 Massachusetts Avenue,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Doctor Jenks:-

In reply to your letter concerning our scheme of classification of anthropological literature would say that, as you no doubt know, our library is in charge of the librarian of the Geographical Society and the books are now kept in a section of their stacks. As you no doubt have such information concerning their work I will simply speak of my personal library.

To me, one of the essentials for the working anthropologist is ready access to the giant mass of fugitive material in the form of articles in scientific and other magazines. A systematic investigation of these articles, either in the form of authors separates or else excerpts from the magazines, is most desirable and to this end I am obtaining all such material that is available, enclosing each article in a separate manila cover and filing some in boxes with let-down fronts which makes the material available at all times. The boxes are the horizontal ones as vertical filing is not advantageous in the case of thin articles which would then have to be filed on edge. These boxes are divided into three sections: ethnology, archaeology as represented by our individual states, and technology. A card catalogue and corresponding [[?]] ring of the ethnological boxes makes it possible to locate the individual tribes and the other boxes are labelled with their distinctive captions. 
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