UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
8. P. LANGLEY 
SECRETARY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
Washington, d. c., November 5, 1902. 
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Sir: 
You will no doubt recall sny conversation with you re- 
garding the needs of the Department of Anthropology with 
respect to reenforcing its curatorial staff. The death of 
Doctor Wilson has left the euratorship of Prehistoric Archaeol- 
ogy vacant, hut, as I have already explained, the needs of this 
division are not urgent, and Mr. Upham working under rny personal 
supervision will he able to care for the division until we are 
ready to undertake the reclassification and reinstallation of 
tne archaeological collections. My own transfer to the Bureau 
leaves additional available funds, the two salaries now unal- 
lotted amounting to the sum of five thousand seven hundred 
dollars, Mow f beg that you will permit me to present a 
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measure which I i|iave had iri mind for several years, i.e., the 
foundation of & division of Physical Anthropology in the 
Museum. Just now there are especial reasons why this measure 
should be taken up, but these reasons I have already explained 
to you in detail. 4 
