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of learning in the United States, receiving in exchange such 
implements and objects as are possible. Perhaps the most 
important factor of all would be the endeavor to increase the 
knowledge and interest of the executive and legislative offi- 
cers of our Government so that the science of Prehistoric 
- Anthropology would receive in the future their countenance 
and support. 
Applying this argument, I suggest that if any department 
in the National Museum is to be extended or enlarged, is to 
have greater opportunities for research, more help employed, 
more money expended, either in publications, illustrations, 
investigations or in the purchase and display of rare or fine 
specimens it should be that of Prehistoric Anthropology 
rather than any other. 
