brought to an abrupt olos e, but a number of members of th© 
scientific staff were still engaged in completing important 
reports on their respective researches during previous years. 
It happened that there were about ,-10, GOO available for this 
w©r&. These reports had to be finished and put through the 
press, and since the wr iters ware scattered over the country 
the correspondence required proved quite a burden. Prominent 
among the scientists were E. D. Cope, Dr. Elliott CoWes , 
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Orestes St. John, 0. 0. Marsh and Dr.^/gO'g Hewb^fy. At the 
same time I had a number of my own unfinished papers and 
reports to look after, some of which are referred to by 
Dr. Powell in his introductions to the reports of 1881 r 1882, 
and 1885 of the Bureau of Ethnology. Copies of these notice? 
are included herewith. 
It is not inappropriate that I should mention here 
that in 1885 I courted and married Miss Kate Clifton Osgood, 
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of whom a notice published on the occasion of her death is 
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here introduced* he wb ^ a handsome woman, as her portrait 
