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facture of Raw Silk,"' illustrated b^^ colored lantern slides, was given 

 by him on that date. Several groups of school children from public 

 and private schools of Washington and vicinity, were given talks on 

 the textile collections bv the curator. He also arranged for lectures 

 and demonstrations at the Museum to classes of young ladies from 

 the National Park Seminary, Forest Glen, Maryland, and to the 

 class in home economics of the Maryland State College of Agricul- 

 ture, at College Park. 



Special thanks are due Dr. Murray Gait blotter, Librarian of the 

 Hygienic Laboratory, Washing-ton City; to Dr. W. A. Dewey, 

 Registrar of the Homeopathic Medical School, University of Michi- 

 gan, Ann Arbor, Michigan ; and to Dr. J. H. Shrader, Specialist in 

 Oils, Bureau of Plant Industr}', Washington City, for their splendid 

 cooperation in arranging by correspondence for the contribution of 

 specimens to the Museum, and for making use of every opportunity 

 of presenting the needs of the Museum to persons in a position to 

 render assistance. 



