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[[green pencil]] GBG [[/green pencil]] C M file K1 upper [[stamped]] g42317[[/stamped]] [[preprinted letterhead]] UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM UNDER DIRECTION OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION WASHINGTON [[/preprinted]] March 5, 1885 [[stamped]] Approved G Brown Goode [[/stamped]] Prof Baird: Dear Sir: I have the honor to submit the monthly report for the Department of Ethnology for the month ending February 28, 1885. Miss Latham spent most of the time copying the Ethnological Catalogue, and the remainder in copying my card-encyclopaedia and other museum work. Mr. Sweeny spent the entire month in mounting and arranging objects for exhibition during the Inaugural Ceremonies. Mr Clayton entered the collections