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is considered that for every specimen a measurement requires to be made which involves a walk to the photographer's, or a weight which involves a call upon the ^[[resources]] [[strikethrough]] [[illegible]] [[/strikethrough]] of the Survey Laboratory, and that there is not a single article of apparatus furnished by the Museum to facilitate such work, it may be understood that the curator who undertakes such work has but little encouragement.
   Finally, although it is my desire to make an attractive [[scribble]] display of the specimens in my charge, it is not only impossible to do so in the space at my disposal, but I am reduced to the necessity of removing the whole series of Indian foods from exhibition, to make space for other things.  Your own suggestion to store the Indian foods in boxes involves considerable risk to the specimens, and necessarily destroys the classification, which