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Interdepartment relations. This section of the Museum has 

 supplied information and worked in cooperation with a number 

 of state departments and officials, especially in connection with 

 Indian affairs. We have supplied facts for the Attorney General's 

 office, assisted the Adjutant General's office through the Bonus 

 Commission, conferred with officials in the State Board of Charities, 

 the State Department of Health, and supplied data for various 

 members of the Legislature. 



Public interest. The interest of the public in this division of 

 the Museum is evidenced by the numerous visitors and inquirers 

 who come for information and advice. In this statement we do 

 not include those who merely visit the exhibition halls. 



We have frequent requests from authors, playwrights and direc- 

 tors of pageants for facts bearing on their special subjects. During 

 the year we have given detailed outlines of plans or rendered special 

 assistance by way of reports or addresses to the following institu- 

 tions, or bodies: the Eastern States Exposition, junior achievement 

 activities; Genesee county fair in its historical pageant; Livingston 

 county centennial; Boy Scouts of America; the New York State 

 Archeological Association; the Indian Welfare Society; the New 

 York State Indian Commission; the Federal Board oi Indian Com- 

 missioners; the Interchurch World Movement; the Holland Land 

 Company Historical Society; the Ontario County Historical Society; 

 Rochester Municipal Museum; the Mohawk Indian Village of Boy 

 Scouts; and the Order of Mound Builders. We have likewise 

 assisted by way of information and documents the Six Nations of 

 Canada and the Mohawk Nation of Tayendanagea, and assisted 

 the Indians of the World War League in their bonus difficulties. 



By far the greater amount of time, however, is given to the indivi- 

 dual citizen interested in or concerned with Indian matters, either 

 legal, social or archeological, and the number of personal visitations 

 by these is almost overwhelming when it is considered that other 

 forms of office work must also receive attention. 



Staff personnel. The staff of the archeological division consists of 

 the archeologist and one clerical assistant. With a field of endeavor 

 so extended and diversified it is increasingly difficult to handle 

 the various subjects that come before us. There is no museum in 

 the United States of this scope and having a department of archeology 

 with so small a staff and so little clerical help. It is not difficult to 

 see that with a larger staff much more might be accomplished. 



