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this, Acting Curator would not serve well, but Associate Curator might be better. The more routine of cataloguing & mounting does not deserve the title of Curator, but if classifying & labeling are required such a title would only be proper, under the present circumstances. I respectfully offer the suggestions above, & request to have my position defined.

[[underlined]] 2. Textiles Collection. [[/underlined]] - This collection embraces raw materials and manufactured fabrics. Before I went away I could refer in a moment to any specimen in the collection, whether on exhibition or elsewhere. During my absence the drawer of my desk was broken open, not by forcing the lock, but by more destructive means, which resulted in the complete disarrangement of my index-cards, the intermingling of