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I have had the Thomson paper copied in type-writing. Mr. Purcell's Report on his collection in California put into literary shape and I have spent some time on my own paper on the skin-working industry of the American Aborigines. During the last part of the month Mr. Niblacks proof of his article on the Indians of the Northwest Coast, was sent to us by the printer and we found it to be in such bad shape that much time was required to correct the errors therein contained. All of the part relating to figures and their explanations had to be rewritten. 

The number of specimens received