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2 copies 5-27-86.

GY 2 copies RH

Hitchcock K3 upper March '86

[[underline]] Mar. 1886 [[/underline]]

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Mr. G. Brown Goode
Assistant Director, Nat. Museum

Dear Sir:- I transmit herewith my report for the month of March, 1886.

Respectfully
Romyn Hitchcock

April 3rd 1886.

[[blue line down left margin]] The work that has been long in progress in connection with the food collection is just now beginning to show itself in the cases in the N.W. range.  There are now on exhibition, mainly as the result of operations this month, a Kensington case containing a fine collection of articles of food from japan, a similar case illustrating the manufacture of cocoa & chocolate, and material enough for two more cases of various articles of food which cannot yet be classified in the exhibition series, but which are of interest as they are.  There has also been arranged a large collection of starches and farinaceous foods in a slope-top table-case.

Among the most important donations that have been catalogued may be mentioned

1. A collection of Spices and other food products from Jamaica, received from the New Orleans Exposition

2. A similar collection mainly consisting of varieties of peppers (chillies) from Mexico, also from the Exposition.

3. A fine collection of oils from the Department of Education, Tokio, Japan

4. A valuable set of specimens of fabrics dyed with anilin dyes [[strikethrough]] , [[/strikethrough]] carefully named, [[/blue line down left margin]]