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example, also apparatus for weaving. On the one hand the stone grinders of savage peoples are interesting as showing from what the great mills of the present have originated. Nevertheless, I cannot think that a collection showing the progress of improvement in this division should be permitted to draw a single stone from the ethnological series, and so long as [[2 words, strikethrough ]] apparatus of any kind is intimately associated with the life of a people, or of the conditions or resources of a country, it should remain among those people in the museum.