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ing-room and two new storerooms, equipped with storage racks and 

 trays, have been built for the Department of Anthropology. A ship- 

 ping-room has been constructed in the west court. In the Depart- 

 ment of Geology the laboratories and workrooms have been re- 

 arranged, and the two rooms formerly used as laboratory and library 

 are now divided into laboratory, library, storeroom, and workroom. 

 A brick addition to the boiler-house has been erected, and an assay- 

 ing-room for the use of economic geology has ^been fitted with fur- 

 naces connected with the smoke-stack in the boiler-house. Besides 

 all of the above additions and improvements, making great demands 

 upon the mechanical force of the institution, the'usual and routine 

 repairs, and the attention required by the roof and the exterior of 

 the building, have been kept up. In the Department of Anthro- 

 pology the east court has been entirely reinstalled, all the material 

 not relating to Archaeology having been transferred to appropriate 

 locations. The court is now entirely devoted to American ArcTiae- 

 ology, the north alcoves containing North American Archaeology, 

 the central portion Mexican and Central American Archaeology, and 

 the south alcoves South American Archaeology. Every case of the 

 court has been reinstalled and rearranged, and the material has been 

 entirely reclassified. In the north court twelve cases have been 

 added within the present year. Six of the new cases are de- 

 voted to Etruscan Archaeology, the contents of each tomb being 

 installed as a unit. Hall No. 7, formerly devoted to Chinese Eth- 

 nology, has been used for the last six months as a workroom for 

 casting, molding, and sculpturing. The Chinese Joss-House material 

 which heretofore occupied the room, no longer being regarded as 

 worthy of exhibition, has been mostly destroyed, that of any value 

 whatever being boxed and stored. The contents of Halls 16 

 and 17 have been removed, together with all the cases. Both halls 

 have been renovated, and now present a fresh and attractive appear- 

 ance. Hall No. 16 has been recased with new standard cases, and 

 is devoted to South American Ethnology, that portion which relates 

 to British Guiana and Venezuela having all been "installed. For the 

 first time there is used in this hall a portable screen which divides the 

 case into two equal halves, and does away with the cumbrous and 

 unsightly fixed partition. Hall No. 17 has also been recased with new 

 standard cases and is to be devoted to the Ethnology of the Southwest, 

 chiefly that of the Hopi. A large group, showing the characteristic 

 features of a Hopi dwelling, the several inmates being engaged in 

 domestic pursuits, has been completed. A young man throwing a 

 boomerang has also been installed, and figures of a bride and two 



