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    Curators Reports
       Textiles. March 89
           R. Hitchcock

Mr. G. Brown Goode
        Assistant Secretary Sm. Inst.
   Dear Sir:- I herewith present my monthly report covering the work in my department for the month of March.  
The time ha been mostly occupied in overhauling the textiles that are in table cases, belonging mostly to duplicate and reserve series, preparatory to rearranging & classifying such as are of value, & discarding others.  Mr. Earle has arranged to let me have the drawers in the small room next to my office, which will enable me to dispose of a considerable bulk of material until it can be mounted.  Mr. S. C. Brown has offered me temporary use of some space in his store-rooms, where I shall be able to arrange unit boxes containing mounted specimens.  I shall thus