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(loscriptioii or field report rendered by the assistant, unless incorporated 

 in it. Three of the models prepared by the artists of the Bureau for 

 the Kew Orleans Exposition and made entirely from these descrii)tions 

 and fiii'ures are now on exhibition in the I^ationnl Museum. 



Fir.. 1. — Tlclativo posilidiia of skpletoiis in nn East Tfiiiirsscc inoiiii<1. 



In onler to preserve the data re.i;ardin<4 tiie specimens, notes are made 

 at the time tliey are eollected statin^' where they were found, whether 

 in mounds, in graves, or on the surface, and how obtained, and by whom. 

 The collector's field numbers are niiuked on the si)ecimens, mid corre- 

 spondinj;' lists are msule and transmitted with each sliipinenf. All col- 

 lections are sent direct to the IJureau of J'U.liiioloiiy, addicssed (o '' MmJ. 

 J. W. Powell, Director, Washington, J). (!.," thus insiiiinu' iin olliciid 

 record of each shipment. There they :ire ojiened, exiimincd, :ind com- 

 ])ared with th(i field lists Jind carcCulIy (riilalo^ued, tiie field numbers 

 being iiiserted and the numbers of tin^ r>ur<'!iu seiies being added, 'i'hey 

 are then tuiiu'<l over to the National Museum and the SniiihsoMian nam 

 bers arci ])laced upon them. In order to insurer accnrac.N the Smithsonian 

 nnml)ers are placed n]>on them and the Ibiican and Smithsonian cata- 

 loguing is done beibic the actual icmoval and distriluiliou among the 



