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   As the food collections are at present arranged those products which represent the foods of primitive peoples are shown in cases which, if the plan were carried out in detail, would eventually contain all the food products of the world.  Such a collection might be of some interest; but it seems to me that the great value of these articles lies in their association with the people who use them.  It may be said that uncivilized tribes utilize the natural products of the country in which they live & that therefore their foods are purely a matter of geographical position.  This is undoubtedly true, and I have recognized this fact in arranging, for example, the foods of the Indians of North America by themselves.  In my opinion, it would be quite impracticable to subdivide this collection so as to show the products used by different [[insertion]] nations or [[/insertion]] tribes of Indians, because it is only occasionally that such subdivision could be made that would have a characteristic value, and even then it would not represent anything more than an incidental fact, due to the varied resources of the country.  Now, in my opinion, all

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