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39. With the co-opcration of the departmental staff, the Museum libra- 

 rians completed this task within a few weeks. As all books pertaining 

 to anthroix)lopy, also those formerly stacked in the main library, are 

 now assi^icd to the departmental collection, it was necessary to prepare 

 a new .set of catalogue cards in conformity with this new arrangement, 

 and the number of the cabinet in which a book is placed has been added 

 to each card, so that it is possible to promptly locate a volume. The 

 BaRobo proup haslxxin completed and the figvu^of thcHopi boomerang- 

 thrower remodeled. 



In the Department of Botany the entire staff of the department 

 projxrr was employed during the first five months of the year in finishing 

 preparation for moNnng into the halls and rooms set aside for it in the 

 new building. The specimens in all those exhibition cases not prepared 

 during the closing months of the previous year were secured in place, or 

 jxicked in containers, and properly marked and lalx?led to designate 

 the position they were destined to occupy. The entire herbaria and all 

 other material, supplies, appliances, etc., were, in like manner, prepared 

 for trans-portation. The month of May and part of June were employed 

 in superintending the removal of the packed material from the old 

 building and the placing of the same in position in the new. In Septem- 

 ber re-installation began both in the exhibition halls and the working 

 rooms. Since that date the books of the Department Library have 

 been temporarily shelved and arranged, the phanerogamic herbarium 

 fully organized, and most of the laboratories at least partly equipped 

 for work. On account of alterations deemed cx]x?dient in the depart- 

 mental arrangement as originally planned, it became necessary to 

 change the installation of a large number of cases previously considered 

 complete. These rc-installations have consumed a large amotmt of 

 time and rendered re-installation far slower than was expected, setting 

 back the anticipated completion of the department at least five months. 

 Contributory to this extra work has been the elements of the unfinished 

 character of the halls and the dust raised in the work of their completion. 

 This has caused more cleaning of specimens and repainting of case 

 interiors than could have Ixxni foreseen. In Hall 28 one hundred and 

 ten case units have been placed. These arc devoted entirely to all 

 those plant families the elements of which are on hand at this time. 

 The installation will comprise plant reproductions and natural sfKxri- 

 mens embracing the taxonomy of about 100 families. Of these 81 

 are now installed. Hall 27, Foreign Woods: In this hall the cases 

 have not yet been shifted to their intended position. They will require 

 comparatively little interior arrangement when once set, as the 

 contents are now in place. Hall 26, North American Trees: The 



