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REVIEW OF SPECIAL RESEARCHES PROSECUTED UPON MATERIAL BELONGING TO THE DEPARTMENT. 
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Preparation of the Exhibits of this Department for the International Expositions at Madrid and Chicago, both of which occurred within the fiscal year, prevented the prosecution of extensive or continuous researches upon material.

In accordance with the request of the Director, the Curator of this Department arranged his private collection of laces, according to their various kind kinds, epochs, countries, and in historic sequence, and prepared them for display at the Exposition at Chicago. They were displayed in that Department of Ethnology devoted to Women's work. A descriptive Catalogue of 250 type-written pages was also prepared. Some of the Copper objects were studied and analyzed. 

This labor, with that of classifying, cataloguing and marking regular specimens, the examination and report upon loan collections, exchanges,