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Concluding Recommendation for Foods & Textiles

It would be quite possible for the Acting Curator to conduct the two sections of Textiles and Foods together in a satisfactory manner, if his work could be, as it should be, strictly confined to planning and directing, and to the special study necessary for classifying and labelling the specimens. In other words, if he could be releived of the purely clerical and mechanical work, which could be quite as well, and more economically done by assistants. Two assistants, one to work in the collection of textiles and the other, preferably a student of chemistry, in the collection of foods, could be kept profitably employed, and the result would be quickly seen in [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] immediate results in the museum cases. The appointment of two assistants is, therefore, strongly recommended. 

R Hitchcock