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5. What special investigations have you commenced, continued, or completed, upon material under your care, during the year?

The Curator finished up proof reading and publication on his monograph upon Travel and Transportation. Two other shorter papers on the distribution of a peculiar Belt Weaving Apparatus, and the distribution and influence of the Steel Bladed Knife upon the work of the North American tribes especially in Canada and in the Arctic regions. Every spare moment of the Curator's time has been devoted to studying specimens and collecting material for an exhaustive monograph of American Aboriginal Zootechny or arts connected with the animal world, including gathering, hunting, capture, trapping, domestication and breeding. Material for a large volume and many drawings have been gotten together and it is hoped that in the course of the coming year this work will be finished for the press.