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[[preprinted letterhead]] UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM UNDER DIRECTION OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION WASHINGTON [[/preprinted]] [[underlined]] Mr. Shindler. [[/underlined]] Does all the painting of figures for Chicago and, so far as he serves my department, is completing the type set of half-height [[strikethrough]] lay [[/strikethrough]] portraits of the races of men. [[underlined]] Mr. Pom. [[/underlined]] Temporarily appointed by Professor Langley to write up the collections from the Far East. You will find an account of specimens below--- I am very truly yours O.T. Mason.