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paring for the Chicago Exposition. A plan proposed is as follows; [[line connecting this sentence to next, showing paragraph break was incorrect]] To show at Chicago, as accurately as possible the aboriginal life of North America at the time the natives were first visited by the Whites and before they were changed by contact with our civilization. Such an exhibit has never been attempted for any continent before because the means were not at hand to carry it out. It is true that in all the great Expositions much attention has been paid to primitive arts. The Paris Exposition of 1889 had a section devoted to the French Colonies in Africa and in South-eastern Asia, and there was a most interesting series of structures illustrative of human habitations in all grades of culture. In the [[underlined in pen]][[overwritten in pen]]P[[/overwritten]]alais des Industries [[overwritten in pen]]D[[/overwritten]]iverses[[/underline]], fourteen groups of lay figures were arranged to illustrate the progress of Art, commencing with the rude cave-dweller and ending with the Chinese cloissonnie[[e accented with pen]] worker. In many of the exhibits sent by our Institution to Philadelphia London, Berlin, New Orleans ^[[&]] Cincinnati single arts or a single people have been exhaustively treated. At Philadelphia under the direction of my distinguished predecessor, the archaeol-