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mals scattered about the scene, give a very realistic atmosphere to 

 it. Plans for the arrangement of storage material on the third floor 

 were drawn up last May. Storage cases were set up in the work 

 rooms opposite the offices of the assistant curators, and storage racks 

 were built in rooms 29-31, 33, 34, 36, 55, 65 and 66, set aside for 

 this purpose. The unpacking, shifting, sorting and permanent placing 

 of this material absorbed the attention of the Department for six 

 months. The assignment of the rooms is as follows: room 28, ex- 

 change collections; room 29, pottery of Southwest North America; 

 room 30, South America; rooms 31 and 33, India, Ceylon, Burma and 

 Siam; room 34, Borneo, Java; room 36, Philippines; room 55, Mela- 

 nesia; room 65, Tibet; and room 66, China. Two special cabinets were 

 made for the safe keeping of Chinese and Tibetan scrolls. Two 

 screen carriers for four-foot cases and eight lay-out tables were made 

 for the purpose of installation. The Japanese sword-guards, not utilized 

 for exhibition purposes, have been arranged in a cabinet to serve as a 

 study collection. The office of the Assistant Curator of Malayan Eth- 

 nology was transferred from room 36 to room 43, room 36 being 

 utilized for storage purposes. The 170 exhibition cases, which in the 

 beginning of the year were stored in the Boat Hall on the ground 

 floor, were transferred to the fourth floor. It is gratifying to record that 

 the methods of exhibition and labeling have met with universal ap- 

 proval, and that wide use has been made of the collections for both 

 study and practical purposes. 



Progress and achievement in the Department of Botany during 

 the past year has been more than ordinarily satisfactory. The com- 

 fort, convenience and facilities of the offices and work rooms in the 

 new building have rendered the efforts of the staff more efficient than 

 could possibly have resulted in the old. The first four months of the 

 year were devoted entirely to the arrangement, reinstallation and com- 

 pletion of the case installations after having been packed and moved. 

 During this work a number of the case units were entirely readjusted 

 and many new specimens added. Two cases were installed in Stanley 

 Field Hall, as indexes to the character of the installations in the de- 

 partment itself. For these a number of elements were specially pre- 

 pared : for the case illustrating plant life a delicate model of the flowers 

 of Sugar Cane was executed and for the plant economics case two 

 branches of resin producing plants were added to the typical specimens 

 of rare and attractive amber-like gums. Since the opening of the 

 Museum building to the public the following new installations have 

 been added to those which were already in place in Hall 28 — the 



