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Thomas Wilson CURATOR DEPARTMENT OF PREHISTORIC ANTHROPOLOGY
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7. WHAT MATERIAL FROM YOUR DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN LENT TO INVESTIGATORS DURING THE YEAR, AND IN CONNECTION WITH WHAT SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS WAS THE MATERIAL NEEDED.

PLEASE ARRANGE ANSWER, ALPHABETICALLY, UNDER NAME OF PERSON TO WHOM SUCH MATERIAL WAS LENT.

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The only material from my Department lent for investigation, has been to J. D. McGuire, Esq., and to the Bureau of Ethnology.  Mr. McGuire has been engaged, in connection with Prof. Mason's Department, in experimenting upon the manufacture of Aboriginal stone implements, principally by the use of the hammer, by flaking, chipping, and drilling.  The implements he makes and the mode of their manufacture fall, according to the general Museum classification, within my Department, and I [[strikethrough]] should [[/strikethrough]] think his work should be in association with me.

My Department has furnished to the Bureau of Ethnology material for investigating a hypothetical methods of manufacture of copper sheets.  Also stone implements by Mr. Fowke, and pottery by Mr. Holmes.  Taken altogether, though, it has not been of high importance to my Department of the Museum.