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It is with no little diffidence that the needs of this section are set forth thus at length, knowing the personal interest you have manifested in its progress and development, and your willingness to advance its interests by every possible means.  Nevertheless, since you have asked for "recommendations and remarks" it has seemed a proper occasion to indicate what that the experience of two months has clearly shown to be essential needs for the proper conduct of the work of the section.  Without books it is impossible to do the work creditably - they are quite as necessary as the material itself, in a
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museum.  It is to be hoped they can be obtained in some way. 

   Respectfully submitted
      [[P.?]] Hitchcock

Jan. 1884.