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9. Give a list of persons, other than contributors, who during the year have aided your department by their assistance and advice; and indicate briefly the nature of their services.

It would be impossible to name all the persons who have willingly served the Department of Ethnology during the past year, but especial attention is called to the services [[strikeout]]of [[/strikeout]] Mr. Tappan Adney, journalist, [[strikeout]] who is [[/strikeout]] in working up the classification of canoes and traps according to forms; [[strikeout]] of [[/strikeout]] Mr. Henry Balfour for studies in the Asiatic bow; [[strikeout]]of [[/strikeout]] the Honorable John Daggett of California, [[strikeout]]on [[/strikeout]] the material, dyes and technique of California Indian basketry; [[strikeout]]of [[/strikeout]] Mr. Samuel J. Entrikin, Chester, Pennsylvania, for information concerning the structure of Estimo dog harness; [[strikeout]]of [[/strikeout]]doctor J. Walter Fewkes for information concerning the industrial life of pueblo Indians; [[strikeout]]of [[/strikeout]]Doctor J. W. Hudson of Ukiah, Cal., [[strikeout]]on [[/strikeout]]the variety of stitches used in California basketry; [[strikeout]]of [[/strikeout]]Doctor W. J. Hoffman [[strikeout]]of [[/strikeout]]the methods of mat-making among the Chippewa tribes; [[strikeout]]of [[/strikeout]]Miss Elizabeth Lemke of Berlin, [[strikeout]]on [[/strikeout]] the distribution of looms in Germany; [[strikeout]]of [[/strikeout]] Mr. J. D. Mc.Guire of Ellicott City, Maryland, on topics connected with the art of stone working; [[strikeout]]of [[/strikeout]] Mr. E. W. Nelson of Mexico for many details connected with the technique of the Alaskan Eskimo; [[? move or insert Rev George B. Winton but can't find end of sentence]] [[Strikeout]] of Professor F. W. Putnam on his explorations in the mounds and stone graves; of [[/Strikeout]] Mr. Frederick Remington, journalist, on the peculiar canoes of the Kootenay River and of Rev. George B. Winton of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, for most valuable collections [[strikeout]]to [[/strikeout]]illustrating the survival of ancient Indian arts among the modern tribes and [[strikeout]]that [[/strikeout]] of old Spanish culture in the folk Mexican life.  [[strikeout]]Doctor [[/strikeout]]F. V. Coville [[strikeout]]of the Department of Agriculture [/strikeout]] has become personally interested in the botany of the aboriginal tribes.  The identification of plants used by the Indians of our western country for food, narcotics, clothing, houses and house life, textiles and timber is of the greatest importance [[strikeout]]in [[/strikeout]] the study of ethnobotany.