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versity of Arizona, and has been successfully used in connection 

 with the excavations on Lowry ruin in Colorado by the Field Museum 

 Archaeological Expeditions to the Southwest. 



Two cases of artifacts, selected from the large collection of ethno- 

 logical material from the islands of the Pacific, presented to the 

 Museum during the year by Mr. Templeton Crocker, of San 

 Francisco, were placed on exhibition in Joseph N. Field Hall (Hall A). 



Seventeen exhibition cases of new ethnological material from 

 Africa were installed in Halls D and E, and two in Alcove Al near-by. 

 The bulk of these new exhibits is from the collections made by the 

 Frederick H. Rawson-Field Museum Ethnological Expedition to 

 West Africa (1929-30). 



In Stanley Field Hall there were installed a case of beautiful 

 scarfs for women, from India; a fine collection of ancient lacquered 

 vessels from Peru ; and a case of remarkable Peruvian textiles made 

 between a.d. 1000 and 1500. To the Mexican and Central American 

 collections in Hall 8 there were added many excellent examples of 

 ancient sculptures, pottery, textiles, and other archaeological material 

 including some collected in British Honduras during 1934 by the 

 Joint Expedition of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., 

 and Field Museum. 



Extensive reinstallations, along with additions of material not 

 previously exhibited, were made in Halls 8 and 9 (archaeology of 

 Mexico and Central and South America); Hall 32 (ethnology of 

 China and Tibet); Hall D (West and Central African ethnology); 

 Hall E (Madagascar, and East, South and North Africa) ; Edward E. 

 and Emma B. Ayer Hall (Hall 2, archaeology of Italy, Etruria 

 and Greece); and Joseph N. Field Hall (Hall A, ethnology of 

 Melanesia and other South Pacific island groups). 



Numerous additions were made to the exhibits in the Department 

 of Botany. Among new reproductions of plants, prepared by the 

 Plant Reproduction Laboratories of the Museum, and now on exhibi- 

 tion in the Hall of Plant Life (Hall 29) are one of an entire plant of 

 the Panama hat palm of Central America and northern South 

 America; a branch of the South American climber called guarana, 

 used by natives in making a beverage with the mildly stimulant 

 properties of coffee; a fruiting branch of the jujube tree; a branch 

 of the tropical American cupuassu tree, which is related to the 

 cacao; a branch of jaboticaba, a curious plant from Brazil which 

 has grape-like fruit growing directly from the stem; and a new 

 species of Heliconia, from Mexico, which has been added to the 



