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8. Give the names of any persons who have prosecuted investigations in your department during the year, and state the special aim of their studies.

[[strikethrough]] The Curator is proud to report that [[/strikethrough]] [[overwritten]] i [[/overwritten]] ^[[I]]nvestigations of great importance have been prosecuted in [[strikethrough]] his [[/strikethrough]] ^[[the]] Department ^[[?]] during the past year: [[strikethrough]] the following is a list of them:- A study in the pipes of North American aboriginals by Mr. J. D. McGuire.  A study in ornamentation among[[/strikethrough]] the Eskimo by doctor W. J. Hoffman.  Doctor Fewkes spent the winter in the Museum preparing an elaborate report of his researches in Arizona during the past two [[strikethrough]] fiscal [[/strikethrough]] years.  Mr. E. W. Nelson, who, 14 years ago or thereabout, spent three years in Alaska making collections and [[insert]] who [[/insert]] was subsequently compelled to go to Arizona on account of ill health, returned to Washington and prepared, [[strikethrough]] in my Department [[/strikethrough]] with the aid of [[strikethrough]] all my corps, [[/strikethrough]] a monograph of his collection, consisting of 7000 objects.  So long had this work been delayed and so necessary to general ethnology was it that Mr. Nelson, who, with his own hands collected these rich treasures, should prepare an account of his explorations, [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] the Curator deemed it of the utmost importance to lay aside every other duty in order to put forward, as rapidly as possible, this ethnographic study.  He is happy to report that the work was finished, and [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] the manuscript is in the hands of the Bureau of Ethnology for publication.  Hundreds of drawings and many photographic plates were carefully made in order to illustrate the monograph.  It is also worth mentioning that with the cooperation of Mr. Nelson all of the specimens in our collection, kindred to those which he brought together, have received additional importance.
[[strikethrough]] Under this hand [[/strikethrough]]The Curator also desires to state that journalists, and students of ethnology in various parts of the United States and of the World have received every attention which it was possible for him to give [[strikethrough]] in order that the public might be enlightened as much as possible. [[/strikethrough]]