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The large wall-case at the west end of the hall has been entirely emptied of its contents, consisting of many collections received from the Bureau of Ethnology, and is not being provided with a partition and shelves for exhibiting the numerous shell-heap-collections thus far mostly hidden from sight in drawers.
The Curator was chiefly engaged in this continuation of his "Classification of North American Antiquities."

Smithsonian Institution, 
June 1, 1886.

C.Rau
Curator.

Professor S.F. Baird.