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of material ought to be able to assign the stones of which the various implements were made to their respective quarries and localities.  A comparison between the implements of the various localities thus divided would show the commerce, if it did not show the migration, between the various peoples who occupied these localities.

This scheme should be carried out with all the implements and extended to all localities, and they should be described correctly, fully, and in detail, each different kind having two illustrations, one the large and the other the small size, and one or the other of them should have an edge, as well as a side, view.  When this is done, we will have a fairly accurate knowledge of the number and kind, with the various differences of form and material, of every implement in the Museum, from every locality.  This can only be done by personal inspection of each object, wherein the cases must be opened and the objects handled and counted as they are segregated and classified.  This being accomplished, many of the specimens now encumbering the cases can be retired and only the type or representative specimens of each class of every implement be retained and displayed; the rest of them may be either boxed and stored, or may be made in sets for exchanges.  The effect of this would be to reduce the number of objects on display but, naturally, the best specimens would be chosen and, therefore, it would increase the beauty and effectiveness of the display.  They should be properly figured and described, either in a guide-book or label, and would show that this implement is the representative of a certain number of other implements not in sight.  Thus, they would stand as though the entire number were on display.  Thus