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6. WHAT SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS HAVE YOU COMMENCED, CONTINUED, OR COMPLETED, UPON THE MATERIAL UNDER YOUR CARE, DURING THE YEAR.
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During the past year the curator has finished his work on [[underlined]] Woman's Share in Primitive Culture [[/underlined]] and also a work on the [[underlined]] Origins of Inventions [[/underlined]], the former publication in New York, the latter in London.
Besides these the curator has completed and published a monograph on the [[underlined]] Bows, Arrows and Quivers of the American Aborigines [[/underlined]] and a paper on [[underlined]] Migration and the Food Quest.[[/underlined]] In addition to the works just named the Curator has been gathering for years material for extended works on the following subjects, Primitive Apparatus and Methods of Travel and Transportation, Arts and Industries of the Races about the Pacific Ocean, and Tools and Mechanical Appliances of the American Aborigines., the first named is nearly ready for publication and will be completed by May 1895, the others will be put into form as soon as the material may be collected and the drawings made.