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[[preprinted letterhead]] UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM UNDER DIRECTION OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION WASHINGTON [[/preprinted]] (2 [[underlined]] Miss Latham. [[/underlined]] Unfortunately for me has been absent the whole month and I have the entire drudgery of my office to perform. [[underlined]] Mr. Sweeny. [[/underlined]] Mounting ethnographic material for Chicago Exposition. There is no one to do his work now in the museum, so the progress of separating and [[strikethrough]] classifying [[/strikethrough]] cleaning the specimens for mounting has to stop. [[underlined]] Mr. Mills. [[/underlined]] During the month at the suggestion of Mr. Earll, the work of mounting groups for Chicago has been divided, Mr. Mills attending solely to the plaster work. [[underlined]] Mr. Bergman. [[/underlined]] Making lay figures for mounting costumes at Chicago. [[underlined]] Mr. Pollard. [[/underlined]] Labeling Chicago material. M. Luscomb. Making models of habitations.