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2. The work of arranging the food collections has been done mainly by Mr. Towne, who has been almost steadily engaged upon the collection of Indian foods during the past two months. This part of the work should be completed in the course of the next two weeks, when it will be possible to label and classify the specimens.
   My own work in installation has been mostly confined to the textiles, and particularly directed to exhibiting the different varieties of fibres. 
   It is proposed to separate all the textile material, as the work of arrangement progresses, into three parts, (1.) for exhibition (2) for study-series, and (3) for exchanges.  This plan has been carried out thus far; but no attempt has yet been made at a systematic classification of the specimens in either series, for the reason that not a sufficient number of specimens is yet in the cases to make it either practicable or useful.

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