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5.  WHAT SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS HAVE YOU COMMENCED, CONTINUED, OR COMPLETED, UPON THE MATERIAL UNDER YOUR CARE, DURING THE YEAR?

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The conclusion, proof-reading and corrections, list of illustrations, etc., etc., of the Swastika paper belonged to the last fiscal year.  The papers on Prehistoric Art and Architecture, Prehistoric Agriculture, Prehistoric Trepanation Prehistoric Musical Instruments, and a Descriptive Catalogue of the objects in the Museum from the Classical countries around the Mediterranean Sea, have been prepared and are nearly completed.  The extent of them will be understood from the numbers of pages and illustrations herewith given:-

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[[underline]]Title[[/underline]]. | [[underline]]Pages[[/underline]]. | [[underline]]Illustrations[[/underline]].

Prehist. Art and Architecture, | 200 | 162
" [[ditto for Prehist.]] Agriculture, | 158 | 90
" [[ditto for Prehist.]] Trepanation, | 152 | 20
" [[ditto for Prehist.]] Musical Instruments, | 431 | 159
Descriptive Catalogue of Objects in U. S. Nat. Mus. from Classical Countries around the Mediterranean Sea, | 350 | 199
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Abstracts from the daily record of the Department are as follows:-

[[underline]]Lectures delivered[[/underline]]:-

^[[2]]"Chickamauga National Park," before John F. Reynolds Post 6, G.A.R. on Oct.4, 1896, and before the Loyal Legion at Willard's Hall on Nov.6, 1895.

^[[3]]"Anthropology," and "Primitive Surgery," before the Medical Department of the National University, on Oct.23, Nov.13 and Dec.11, 1895.

^[[1]]"Antiquity of the Red Indian in North America," before the Anthropological Society, Nov.5, 1895.

^[[1]]"Work in my Department of Prehistoric Anthropology," before the Anthropological Society, March 14, 1896.

^[[1]]"Curiosities of Marriage," before Anthropological Society April 7, 1896.

^[[1]]"Oscillation the Law of Progress in Art," before Archaeological Institute of America, (Dr. Daniel Quinn, K street).

^[[1]]"Primitive Farming," before Farmers' Institute at Kensington, Md., Nov.27, 1895.

Transcription Notes:
There are handwritten numbers next to the list of "Lectures delivered" at the bottom of the page. Did not know how to mark those annotations.