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7 [[printed letterhead]] UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM Under Direction Of THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Washington [[/printed letterhead]] opened three of these pits & had found enough objects indicating human occupation to cover one of our large cases. The pits were in a [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] a field which had been cultivated from early times & the objects lay just below the reach of the plough. While at Philadelphia I met Dr Boniton Dr Lerdy, Professor Wilcox, Mr Stewart Calin, Mr Francis MacAuby, Doctor Abbott & others. I found the most of these going to New York to [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] attend the Annual Meeting of the American Folk-Lore Society to be held at Columbia College Friday & Saturday November 28th & 29th. I was invited to go