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any individual as collector or donor or through purchase. From the accession number under any of these entries one can refer to the historical file for the lists or for the correspondence ; or with the same accession number he may turn to the inventory book or to the card catalogue for a description or for the exact location of the specimens themselves. On the other hand, from the number of any given specimen, reference may be made at once to the inventory book for its locality or tribe ; or, from the accession number there given, the correspondence in the historical file relating to the collection as a whole may be consulted.

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