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American Ethnology Department of Agriculture 



Henry Gannett, H. S. Pritchett, 



Chief Geographer, U. S. Geological Superintendent of the U. S. Coast 



Survey and Geodetic Survey 



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Chief of the Biological Survey, U. S. Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, 



Department of Agriculture U. S. Treasury Department 



David J. Hill, Charles H. Allen, 



Assistant Secretary of State Governor of Porto Rico 



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Author of "Java, the Garden of Principal of Phelps School, Wash- 



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