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the journals of Lewis and Clark notebooks loose sheets of paper in the lie and I'm talking about the whole of the party not just the two c 90% are the American philosophical Society in Philadelphia the next largest call is at the Missouri Historical Society in St Lou and after that then you get a bit of piece here and there new liary Newberry library in Chicago Illinois the Miss uh Wisconsin State Historical Society in madis so you have a few pieces around then if you want to include Botanical specimens and Maps it even gets more complicated so the whole Corpus of leis and cl materials Maps journals Botanical specimens and other artifacts are fairly voluminous and you may have seen that the Missouri Historical Society mounted an exhibition of many of the artifacts and it was a beautiful thing and very complicated and involved so uh it's hard to just say a set number of journals a set number of maps of Botanical specimens because there's always some ambiguity there thank you again oh well we'll still do something here in a second but um I just want to say you know I I've heard Gary talk and a number of times as all of you have I even eded did some of his videos but um I'm always and I I I think you'll agree with me the ability he has to paint a picture to help us visualize as well as to challenge us to think in different ways about the exposition it's just phenomenal really thank you guys and we hope that um you and F will continue to be friends of mouth of the plat and in order to do so we hope that you will find pleasure in wearing these right all right thanks for coming uh we hope that you'll come for our Christmas event it's going to be here and uh the bar will be open there'll be plenty of Christmas Che e