ii Annual Report of the Director. gg 



tnajoritj ol additions to tin Zoological collections wi n 

 cured by work in the field. The collections made by Mr. Heller are 

 of verj considerable value and of great assistance in scientific work 

 anection with the stud) collection. In ordei to extend the field 

 work in this Department and enable the Department <i more 



ground, Mr. \\ . E. Snyder was engaged to collect in certain of the 

 Stat< s, but In was unfortunately compelled to 

 make an early return. 



Installation, Rearrangement and Permanent Improvements. — The 

 exterior of the building has received the usual attention but it is 



ming evident that certain parts oi the structure have reached a state 



i a\ whi re renewal is impossible. The steam plant was entirely 

 overhauled and a new boiler substituted for one entirely worn out. 

 Tii. Director's office has been calsomined and a hardwood floor laid. 



As usual, installation in the Department of Anthropology was 

 pushed forward as rapidly as cases were provided, in accordance with 

 tin poli< \ di termined upon three years ago. The work of repainting 

 the halls of the Department was also proceeded with. Tin If. \. 



nbotham Korean collection occupying Hall 2 has been recased. 

 During the year the contents of Halls 4, 5 and 6 were removed, the 



- abandoned, the walls freshened and the work of reinstallation of 

 Elections carried on in accordance with the number of new cases 

 provided. Hall 4 is completed and the work of installing the South 

 ollections is about completed. No provision has yet been made 

 for the re-rasing of the collections from Asia and Africa. It is 

 gratifying to note that the textile collection has been formally 

 abandoned and that therefore the lines of the Department on a 



tly anthropologic basis are becoming more and more tightly 

 drawn. Owing to the increase in the collections in North American 

 Ethnology it has been necessarj to find additional space. The 



ctions which formerly occupied Halls 10 and 11. therefore, com- 

 prising the material from tin- Eskimo, have been removed to one of 

 the halls north of the East Court. This will make possible a bi tt< 1 

 arrangement of the material in tin- southeast corner oi tin Museum. 

 Tin following collections have been installed and properly placed in 

 new cases: Apache, Navaho, Winnebago, Cheyenne, Crow 



aptian, as well as I ion made by Mr. Hudson in 



ornia, and 1>\ tin Mc( ormick Expedition among the ruins of 

 Tusayan. Tin- largi collection of Tlingit material purchased 



t. Emmons has been temporarily installed in Hall 1, awaiting 

 rangement of all the northwest coast collections when Mr. 

 be shall have finished his h, Id work among these tribes. 



