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9. GIVE A LIST OF CORRESPONDENTS WHOSE CO-OPERATION HAS RESULTED IN ENRICHING THE COLLECTIONS UNDER YOUR CARE, AND STATE BRIEFLY THE MANNER AND EXTENT OF SUCH CO-OPERATION DURING THE YEAR.
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especially in Asiatic games, Mr. Cushing has made studies in the American games and has added to the number of our specimens illustrating this subject.

Professor F. V. Coville of the Department of Agriculture, has commenced in association with this department a series of studies in the economic botany of North American Savages, he has entered upon this work with great enthusiasm, and his control of the division of botany in the Department of Agriculture affords him unparalleled opportunity for collecting plants, identifying them, and associating them with the aboriginal uses. This work promises very excellent results.

It may be of interest to the Director to know that specimens in the department of Ethnology "typifying the lowest forms of human activity in many respects" have been utilized in various sections of the Museum as the starting point of elaborative or evolutionary series in the new distribution of material before mentioned. Much aid has been given to the section of comparative religions, of animals products, of fisheries, of navigation, and several new technical series just started, especially, one relating to the common tools of all workmen, and the other to metrics.