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left by them.  The student, historian, archaeologist and anthropologist, compare these objects (1) with each other, in localities where they have been associated together, (2) he does the same with the implement from other localities, (3) he compares one locality with another, and (4) all of them together with each other.  That is, he first establishes, as well as he is able, a unit of civilization or culture within a given tribe, group or family; then, by extending his observations, he establishes other units of culture or civilization in other tribes, groups or families, and these units he respectively compares together, first, in a general way and, second, in the details of the implements and objects which go to make them up.

I propose to make, from the specimens in my Department, such a segregation by localities; a division, if possible, by time; ^[[also]] an establishment of units of civilization, and thus make the comparison mentioned, or rather, [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] afford material for students either now or hereafter to make this comparison of civilizations.  This will require the services of a draftsman.  As no person can, by mere words, describe the form of an object, and as the differences of form are, or may be, but slight and yet mean much, there is greater necessity for graphic delineation than there would otherwise be.  The objects have all been made by hand, there never was any special pattern for the workman to follow; each man, to a large extent, made every kind of object, so the differences became more important, and the necessity for drawing greater than it would be under other circumstances.  It would not be true to say there were no type specimens of the objects made by the aboriginal man, because, if he made each one by hazard, as there are a hundred times more implements than styles, some of them must pattern after the others, and thus some implements have