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a practical lesson in ethnology.
Another section of ethnic installation enables the curator to express his renewed obligation to the U.S. Navy. In a former report mention was, made of the great help rendered by Lt. Balles, U.S.N. in the installation of the Eskimo collections. During the last year the curator was aided by Ensign Albert G. Niblack, U.S.N. in arranging the specimens from the strip of our continent lying between Mt. St. Elias and Vancouver Id. along the Pacific coast, partly in British Columbia and partly in Alaska. This region is sometimes called the North-west coast of America. The only objection to this title is the fact that in the Wilkes narrative the same term is applied to the strip from San Francisco bay to the straits of San Juan de Fuca. There are several distinct