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As a supplement to these principal sources of information on primitive 

 woman that can be available for each study club, there may be found 

 material in books on travel in Africa, Labrador, and vSouth America 

 in the public librarj^ of the village or on private bookshelves. If any one 

 in the community is taking The National Geographic Magazine and has 

 by happy chance a file of back numbers, she should be courted by others 

 and made enthusiastic enough to use them to advantage for the interest 

 and the information of the whole study club. 



There are, besides, two small, inexpensive books written and published 

 by the curators of ethnology at the New York Museum of Natural History 

 in New York City. These books are well illustrated, carefully indexed, 

 and can be ordered and delivered by mail. To both of them, Wissler's 

 North American Indians of the Plains and Goddard's Indians of the South- 

 west, references have been made throughout these lists. The ethnological 

 department at Albany has issued several bulletins on Indian affairs, which 

 can be bought from the department or borrowed from the State Library 

 at Albany. To these, frequent references have been given. 



This leads to the question of how far the traveling libraries can be made 

 a\'ailable to meet the needs of study classes at work on the primitive 

 woman course. The State Librar\' authorities at Albany will send on 

 application books of travel and some United States Government docu- 

 ments, such as the annual reports of the Smithsonian Institution and the 

 reports of the Bureau of Ethnology, in so far as they can make their sup- 

 ply meet demands. In Cortland County, for example, where over a 

 dozen clubs have been eager for the same books for working up these 

 programs, a set of books has been furnished by the Albany library on 

 condition of its being kept together in the farm bureau office in Cortland, 

 the most central and the largest town in the group. Because such wonder- 

 fully interesting and valuable accounts are given and fully illustrated in 

 these reports, references are given to them under each program, so that 

 special papers suggested in the outlines can be prepared by those members 

 who can obtain the use of these reports. There is opportunity for choice 

 among the numerous references given under each program. If one of the 

 club members happens to be in a city, such as Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, 

 or Utica, where she could use the books in the public library, she could 

 go with speed and surety to the very volume and page cited in the refer- 

 ence lists. The list, then, is longer than any one club or club member 

 needs to use, and it is graded as to the probabiUties of securing the books. 

 It need not discourage any one, but rather it should offer to each woman 

 who owns this reading course lesson a stimulating sense of further possi- 

 bilities during a lifetime for finding out more about a subject in which 

 she has become interested. 



