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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.