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[[preprinted]] UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM UNDER DIRECTION OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION WASHINGTON [[/preprinted]] Many of these stocks, whatever may have been their previous history, at present include only a few individuals. Indeed a few of them have become extinct,and are known only in the literature of the early explorers and missionaries. The Chicago Exposition furnishes an excellent opportunity of testing the question - how far language co-ordinates itself with industries and