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[[stamped]] DIVISION OF AUG 30 1897 CORRESPONDENCE & REPORTS [[/stamped]]

TECHNOGICAL COLLECTIONS. ^[[1896]]

The division of Technological Collections was organized February 1, 1895 with a view of completing the study and arrangement of the several series then under control as well as the many unclassified objects acquired by the Museum during the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia and since its close over twenty years ago. Owing to the limited exhibition space at the command of the Curator many of these exhibits still remain or have been placed in storage.

The new duties of the Curator to which he was assigned in October 1896 have delayed the active prosecution of classification and labeling but such work as has been proceeded with has been done with the view of assembling together and preserving such objects as have had a marked influence upon our lives and habits in the development of civilization under the general category of the epoch making inventions.