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[[S?]] K | upper [[preprinted letterhead]] UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM UNDER DIRECTION OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION WASHINGTON[[/preprinted]] - April 22, 1885 [[stamped]][[upside-down]] Approved G Brown Goode [[/stamped]][[/upside-down]] Professor S. F. Baird. Secretary Smithson Inst. Dear Sir - I have the honor to give below my report as Curator for the month of March, 1885. The first few days of the month all of my force were busily engaged in preparing for the crowd of visitors that were expected after the inauguration ceremonies. After the eighth of the month Miss Latham collated for the use of this department the tribes of Africa from Keane's index in Stanford's compendium. Mr. Sweeny continued to fix the material in the north-east court, and Clayton entered and marked Stevenson's collection of last summer. During the entire month Mr. Bankert, sent by Mr. Hart, of the N.Y. photoengraving company has been drawing for me a series of throwing sticks and another of Indian baskets. On the [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] 13th March were packed for the Rev. Theodore Flood, of Meadville Pa., the following numbers, for which he will buy #100 worth of Chiriqui pottery:-- 14313, 10787, 93172, 93170, 110344, 84382, 86373, 86252, 86359, 85013, 85051, 86274, 86691, 83845, 85617, - 11396, 42077, 22810, 11258, 23318, 89154, 45499, 44159, 37900, 40403, 69264, 75620, 75613 - 19. Colonel James Stevenson has withdrawn from the donations of the Bureau of Ethnology the following numbers to be sent to Dr. E. B. Tylor, of Oxford, England:- 40879, 69705, 84153, 41693, 69286, 68462, 68818, 47266, 70965, 11964, 68912, 69431, 68766, 69514, 69532, 68873, (8 pieces) 68817, 68885, 47267.
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