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tion, [[insertion]] in the transmission [[/insertion]], before alluded to, of the technical specimens selected, and still further by the impossibility of having printed the descriptive pamphlet which had been prepared, and without which the apparently fragmentary character [[insertion]] of the collection shown [[/insertion]] must necessarily have proved puzzling even to well informed visitors. As to the specimens [[strikethrough]] shown [[/strikethrough]] selected while they were all of them good, and some of them, indeed, very fine, there were nevertheless wanting quite a number of things, the places of which were, by dire necessity, filled with inferior specimens. When an institution like the U.S. National Museum, the only one [[strikethrough]] institution [[/strikethrough]] of its kind under the care of the government of the United States, attempts to [[strikethrough]] [[show the?]] [[/strikethrough]] illustrate the beginnings of line engraving, of mezzotinting, of colorprinting from metal plates, etc., it ought to be able to show the rarest and best things, - [[underlined]] fine Masters E S [[/underlined]] and