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tion of a uniform system. The Division of Physical Anthropology has 



lized and placed in the working circuit during the past \ 

 and the alterations and improvements incidental to the establishment 

 of this Division have required considerable labor. The Assistant Cura- 

 tor in charge of this Division has been provided with offices in the 

 first East Court gallery, and a store room has been constructed for 

 him with sliding trays, etc., adjoining his office and laboratory. Less 

 physical alteration and re-arrangement has been necessary in the 

 1 >epartment of Botany than in any other. However, the receipt of 

 new material by expedition, gift, exchange and purchase now requires 

 for this Department accommodations that will be furnished. The 

 necessary facilities are being provided that will work a great change 

 in this gallery during the ensuing year. A part of this work will 

 consist in completing eight monographic series, which will include 

 the following interesting displays: 



\ Rubbers and gums of the world. 



| Seeds and their natural appliances for traveling. 



Textile fibres of the world. 

 ! Cotton: its growth and utilization from the seedling to food, 

 clothing, warfare, medicine, surgery, implements, paper, pho- 

 tography and the arts. 



\ Notable foods of the world. 

 3" J Edible fruits and their products. 



Habit plants and their products. 



Opium, Tobacco, Cocaine, Betel Nut, Tea, Coffee, Mate, etc., 

 **' etc., Vegetable poisons, Curare Woorare, Hellebore, Pyre- 



thrum, etc. 



Eight special herbarium cases have been provided and placed in 

 the laboratory of this Department, in which is being gathered a 

 reference herbarium about the nucleus formed by the Yucatan 

 material obtained by expedition. The Department of Geology 

 exhibits very little physical change during the year, although plans 

 are being executed that will materially improve Halls 66 and 67. 

 The paleontological collection has been largely re-arranged and 

 re-mounted, and now follows more nearly the stratigraphical order of 

 occurrence. From the lithological collection, most of the polished 

 slabs have been transferred to the Economic Division, and their places 

 filled by sp< 1 miens illustrating the petrology of Manhattan Island and 

 the Green Mountains of Massachusetts. The metallic meteorites have 

 been coated with varnish, and several of the relief maps have been 

 retouched. In the Economic Division, a number of the halls have 

 been re-installed, but the old cases and bases have been utilized in 



