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It would be easy to enlarge on this, but hints like these are to 
be made as simple and practical as possible. The experienced 
antiquarian will not require them in his wider knowledge. Simple 
and easily understood they will be found helpful by many who 
have had fewer opportunities. When practised they will transform 
the mere collector into a promoter of historic science. He will 
no longer be execrated by some leaders in the field as a hindrance 
rather than an aid to clearer knowledge, but he will become one 
of the helping hands without which wise heads can do little 
or nothing. The knowledge gained will be accurate and wide- 
spread, and in the end will lead to valuable results. How much 
such workers are needed may be seen in the very limited reports 
from some counties. How much can be accomplished by men who 
are busy in other ways appears in some of those found elsewhere. 
For all the aid they have given him, others may well unite with 
the writer in returning most hearty thanks to these painstaking 
helpers in the task of obtaining a clearer knowledge of aboriginal 
history. 
