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and wise measure, now under his administration before the Department of Ethnology passes into other hands, to have sufficient help to make all these records straight. The catalogue does not correspond with the collection and I am sure that the Director will furnish the assistance of a competent clerk, like Mr. Turnbull, who would continue the work that he began of straightening up the old records of the Department. I earnestly beg for this assistance.