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6. WHAT EXPLORATIONS (1) BY THE MUSEUM AND (2) UNDER OTHER AUSPICES, HAVE RESULTED IN ENRICHING THE COLLECTIONS UNDER YOUR CARE?

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The Museum has undertaken no particular explorations on its own account.  The Bureau of Ethnology has made no report of its explorations, nor has it sent in any specimens, the result of its explorations for the present fiscal year.

The Curator conducted some explorations in the caverns of Ross and Hocking Counties, Ohio, being absent from July 2 to July 13, 1895, a special report of which he made immediately upon his return.

John W. Emmert of Bristol, Tenn., a former employe of the Bureau of Ethnology, was authorized to conduct explorations to the extent of Fifty dollars ($50.00).  He began work and sent in objects valued by the Curator at Forty-two dollars and fifty cents ($42.50).

General A. L. Pridemore of Jonesville, Lee County, Va., conducted some explorations in a cavern near Duffield, Scott County, Va., for which he was allowed the sum of Forty dollars ($40.00) the alleged cost thereof, for which he returned a large quantity of human bones found therein.