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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 
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UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES. 
BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. 
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 
ASTRbPH YSICAL OBSERVATORY. 
October 11*3.902 
Sir: 
You are hereby designated to represent the Secretary 
of the Smithsonian Institution in organizing and directing 
the work of the Bureau of American Ethnology , with the title 
of Chief of the Bureau, to take effect on October 15th,at a 
salary of Pour thousand five hundred dollars ($4,500.00} 
per annum * 
I shall be pleased to confer with you at an early date 
regarding the future conduct of the Bureau. 
Very respectfully yours, 
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Secretary 
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Mr.W.H. Holmes , 
Smithsonian Institution, 
Head Curator of Anthropology, 
U.S. National Museum. 
