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7. What material from your department has been transmitted to students and investigators outside of the Museum during the year, and in connection with what special investigation was the material needed? It should be stated in each case whether or not the material has been returned to the Museum.

As to the transmission of material to students, it has not been the policy of the Department of Ethnology to send collections away, but an exception to this has been made in the case of our games and amusements, types of which are in the hands of Mr. Stewart Culin of the University of Pennsylvania, who is an expert in such matters. He has not yet returned them.

The Royal Scottish Museum has sent to the Curator photographs of objects, known to have been collected by Captain Cooke, upon which wrong labels have gotten, and the localities have been corrected by comparison with a much larger collection in our National Museum.