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12 PLEASE PRESENT ANY PLANS WHICH YOU MAY HAVE IN VIEW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR DEPARTMENT. 

The curator commenced at the end of the fiscal year to make a classified catalogue of every ethnological specimen in the collection with regard to its function, material and its location for the purpose of indicating graphically the poverty of the department, especially, with reference to American material. For instance, all the stocks of the American race, from Point Barrow to Cape Horn are arranged alphabetically and in the order of their location.

It is proposed to have a separate sheet or column connected with these stocks, as they occur, devoted to each of the great typical industries, activities or apparatus and indicate upon these sheets or in these columns whether or not each stock has in use this apparatus or method. As soon as this chart is made out it can be easily ascertained whether any tribe possess this or that art and if the materials and tools connected with the art are not in the National Museum, it will indicate that an intelligent line along each collection ought to be made.

The Curator hopes to devote a great deal of attention to this especial research during the next year, and to utilize the resources of the establishment with the consent and assistance of the Director for the purpose of perfecting the series for America.