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tion being to facilitate ready reference and comparative study. The advantage of this method is readily seen in the fact that every ethnologic specimen can be found at once by my assistants, that those things which are suggestive of the progress of each art lie side by side and that specimens badly defined or without labels have easy explanation by means of their nearest neighbors. One fact is revealed by this plan of temporary storage. It is that the former methods of collecting material should now be replaced by a still more exhaustive and scientific method. Every specimen now in the collection is valuable and will find a place in future installation; many also have the great merit of being old and well authenticated. But owing to the youth of Ethnologic science hardly any efforts have been made to exhaust a single art, to represent its life history in its entirety. The comparative