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[[circled]] [[&c?]] [[/circled]] ? [[blue pencil]] Foods and Textiles [[/blue pencil]] [[stamped]] EXAMINED BY MR. RATHBUN MARCH 1913. [[/stamped]] [[underlined]] Report upon the Section's of in the U.S. National Museum, 1889 [[/underlined]] By [[underlined]] Romyn Hitchock, Acting Curator. [[/underlined]] The time covered by this report is from the middle of January of the present year to the end of June. A review of the work of these six months would be merely a record of routine in restoring order out of the chaotic condition in which the section was found on my return from Japan. I am happy to state that at the present time the material in my charge is all [[strikethrough]] in [[/strikethrough]] accessible and arranged with some system. This applies to material belonging to [[insertion]] ^ the [[/insertion]] exhibition, reserve & study series, as well as to a large number of duplicates for exchanges. In addition to the work of