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question the propriety of undertaking microscopical work in this department.  All that has been done in the past, has been with my own microscope and accessories. This department has no microscope.  Yet, it seems to me, we cannot do without such work.  The museum must be prepared to answer questions - at least I think that is one of its purposes - and it is simply impossible to do so without apparatus for study - just as impossibly in the matter of fibres, as in entomology or lithology for examples. 
   The next step would be to prepare an index to the reference-series of fibres.  This series is a necessity, to afford readily available specimens for comparison & microscopical examination.  It contains only well authenticated specimens, & is intended to represent every fibre