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tures was to show that religion may be brought within the purview of science as a body of phenomena. From the point of view of the Museum, religion is what men believe concerning a spirit world and all that they do in consequence of such belief. That which they believe is creed, that which they do is cult. The science of religion is the comparative study of the creeds and the cults of the world. 
Much time has been spent during he past year in working up a series of bows and arrows and shields, or what the older writers call the "artillery" of the American aborigines. The material in the Museum to illustrate this subject is now very rich. The linguistic stocks of our American aborigines have been fully studied out, and the locations of each tribe when first mentioned by travelers and explorers, marked upon a map. By collecting the weapons of war of each tribe and studying their characteristics minutely, it is possible now to formulate a geography of them. This study has begun to bear fruit in two directions; poorly labeled specimens which have b en in the Museum a long time, and therefore extremely valuable, can be relegated to their proper tribe and collections belonging to other Bureaus for