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Hitchcock [[underlined]] July 1885 [[/underlined]] 
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Mr. G. Brown Goode
Assistant Director Nat. Museum

Dear Sir: – I send you herewith my report of work done in the section of Textiles during the month of July 1885

           Respectfully
                R Hitchcock
                  Acting Curator

August 1/1885

During the month of July 134 entries were made in the textiles catalogue, embracing numerous specimens of raw cotton, and silk, as well as some other articles.  The greater number of these have also been mounted for exhibition and temporarily labeled. There was received a valuable collection of fibres or fibrous barks from the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, England.

During the excessive heat of the month attention has been mainly given to office work, and labels have been prepared for the printer, [[strikethrough]] [[illegible]] [[/strikethrough]] Two hundred and forty-six