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museums ; and that at a time when the operations of 

 a short-sighted and destructive policy which influences 

 our Government in its attitude toward scientific inves- 

 tigators came quite near placing the researches herein 

 tendered to my readers and collaborators in anatomy, 

 beyond the pale of publication. 



E. W. S. 



TAKOMA, D.C. 



August 20, 1889. 



