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6 [[underlined]] Fourth. [[/underlined]] Names in good use, if distinctive, should always have preference. [[underlined]] Fifth [[/underlined]] If a class of objects is confined to a definite locality, then the name used for that class in that region should be adopted. e.g. Kyak, babbiche, tepee, etc. If necessary, Latin & Greek compounds may be used when no other modern appellation can be found. [[/underlined]][[/underlined]] It is contemplated to prepare with copious illustrations a classified report of all the Ethnological materials in the Museum, according to those concepts or categories that are in use among Ethnologists, such as function, tribe, geographical distribution, degree of elaboration, material, classes of investigators, etc. For the present in order to show in as profitable manner as possible the true value of the years collection, and also to bring before the mind of the Director the great gaps that have been left, a beginning is here made at the kind of report hinted at above. The geographical concept is here