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to material relating to Archaeology. The north alcoves are devoted 

 to the Archaeology of United States and Canada; the central portion 

 contains Mexican and Central American Archaeology, with the excep- 

 tion of those cases at the west end, which illustrate the ancient flint 

 proper, soapsto.ne, and red pipestone quarries of the United States, 

 and at Brandon, England, while the east end cases are devoted to the 

 cliff dwellers and the Pueblo models. The south alcove contains 

 South American Archaeology. Every case in the court has not only 

 been re-installed but has been entirely re-classified, several standard 

 cases being used in the installation of the Mexican and South Ameri- 

 can Archaeology. Material relating to the Ethnology of the Eskimo 

 has been re-classified and re-installed in new cases, Hall 10 being de- 

 voted to clothing and utensils of domestic use and to two figures (from 

 life) engaged in skin scraping and ivory drilling. Hall 11 contains 

 implements of the chase, stone implements, methods of transporta- 

 tion, and three cases of figures representing a harpoon thrower in a 

 kyak, a girl fishing from the ice, and a group of three figures and 

 several dogs, illustrating the return home of the husband from a suc- 

 cessful seal hunt. Ethnological objects heretofore in the East Court 

 and south alcoves have been re-installed in their proper geographical 

 locations. Halls 14 and 15, heretofore containing South America 

 Archaeology, have been dismantled and renovated and are now devoted 

 to the Ethnology of Mexico, Central and South America, new cases 

 having been provided. Owing to the demand for additional space for 

 the recently acquired Hopi collection, it was found necessary to move 

 the lately installed cases of British Guiana, Venezuela, and Paraguay 

 material from Hall 16 to Hall 15. , The Rev. H. R. Voth, from 

 whom the collection of Hopi material was purchased, is en- 

 gaged in reproducing certain ceremonial altars of the Hopi Indians 

 to be installed in Hall 16. Already a large portion of the Mc- 

 Cormick collection has been installed and labeled in Hall 17. In 

 Edward E. Ayer Hall every case of specimens except those given 

 to the Ethnology of the Northwest Indians, has been subjected to a 

 careful revision, classification and labeling. In Hall 33, devoted to 

 ceramics, a portion of the Higinbotham Korean collection has been 

 temporarily installed ; and a part of the same collection has 

 been shown in Hall 4. In the Herbarium of the Department of 

 Botany, where the entire time of the Curator has been spent 

 when not in the field, many improvements have been accomplished 

 and a large amount of installation performed. Additional space for 

 work has been gained from hitherto unavailable floor space. This 

 has been included in the Herbarium rooms in the shape of a stor- 



