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The chief labor of this department during the year, however, & the one of most lasting value is the arrangement of the entire Eskimo collection according to our system, by Lieutenant T. Dix Bolles, U.S.N. An exhaustive report of this work accompanies this account, & ^[[and]] will enable scholars to know the riches & ^[[and]] deficiencies of the National Museum.

As soon as our whole series can be worked out on the same plan the Museum will furnish a [[type?]] series of all Savage apparatus.

During the first half of this fiscal year, the Curator was favored with the assistance of Paymaster Webster, U.S.N.

Transcription Notes:
T.(Timothy) Dix Bolles, U. S. Navy. Webster was also in the U.S. Navy