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[[preprinted letterhead]]
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
UNDER DIRECTION OF 
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
WASHINGTON
[[/preprinted]]

Ensign J. B. Bernadou U.S.N. was catalogued and put on exhibition. It is proposed with the permission of the Director to make an accurate description of this collection and to publish an account of it in the Proceedings of the National Museum. The cases in East hall have all been rearranged so as to give more room and better installation. Lt. Bolles during the month has continued his work in the classification and arrangement of Eskimo carvings. Miss Latham has charge still of the correspondence of the Department and has made a

Transcription Notes:
It is Bernadou, not Bernadow (He was a famous collector for the Smithsonian of artifacts from Korea.)