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it is still true that systematic & exhaustive collections should supplement the other, In following out this plan, the Curator that sought to procure complete outfits of various industries, with many pictures of ships in art processes & minute detail of everything done & said from beginning to end. All of these furnish a poly organic unit, to which desultory material may be referred.

In furtherance of the plan hitherto adopted of elaborating series of specimens on purely natural history principles, the cradles of the museum, the scrapers of American savages & the carrying apparatus pertaining to the human pack-animal have been arranged and described.