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[[handwritten note]] Wilson E[[superscript]]d[[/superscript]] + A[[superscript]]d[[/superscript]]

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1.  HOW HAS THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1896, COMPARED WITH THE PREVIOUS YEAR, AS FAR AS (1) THE NUMBER OF ACCESSIONS AND (2) THEIR SCIENTIFIC VALUE ARE CONCERNED?

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(1) The average number of specimens have been received during the year.  A comparison with the previous year would hardly be just, for the large number of specimens from the Bureau of Ethnology collected from mounds and other explorations during many years since last report; the collection of Dr. Roland Steiner from Georgia; the pottery and stone objects from Nicaragua (part of the Nicaraguan Government exhibit at the Columbian Historical Exposition at Madrid), amounting to many thousands of specimens; were all received and catalogued during the year ending June 30, 1895.

(2) In scientific value, the collections of the past year are up to the general average.