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Bodhisatvas, and the clergy, under each of the three chronological 

 epochs. One case is entirely devoted to the portrait-statues of Bud- 

 dhist monks from the T'ang period to the present, as in this manner a 

 most striking phase in the religious and mental development of China 

 is very forcibly impressed upon us. Nothing could better illustrate the 

 ennobling influence of Buddhism on Oriental society and its lofty intel- 

 lectual aspirations than these portraits of religious leaders with their 

 refined and spiritualized features, and their sermon of salvation. It 

 should be said that the present condition of the Halls does not permit 

 of adherence to a rigidly scientific system of classification of these 

 exhibits. 



In the Department of Botany cases representing the following 

 economic exhibitions have been installed and fully labeled during the 

 year: four case units of Varnish Gums; one case unit illustrating the 

 Cycad family and its products, especially its starch roots and starches; 

 one case unit containing the Gingko and the Yew families and their 

 characteristic fruits and utilizations; a case illustrating in complete 

 groups the Bacteria and their life history, the Diatoms and their methods 

 of reproduction and growth, the Desmids and their life characteristics, 

 and the unicellular Algae; a case illustrating all the phases in the life 

 history of the Marchantiaceae ; one unit case containing the Morning- 

 glory family and characteristic products ; three case units of the Rubiads 

 and their products, including an interesting reproduction of the plant 

 known as the "living ant's nest"; one unit case illustrating the products 

 of the Maple family; a unit devoted to the fruit of the Coco-de-mer palm 

 and the uses to which it is put; one unit case each comprising the 

 products of the Milk- weed and the Horsechestnut families; a case 

 containing both the Passionflower and the Benzoin families and their 

 utilized products; two units exemplifying the various uses supplied by 

 the Ferns ; three units devoted to the Grass family, especially the fibers 

 yielded by various species; one case each exemplifying the characters 

 and uses of fibers yielded by the Screw-pine, the Sedge, the Palm, the 

 Eel-grass and Banana families; one case exemplifying the botany and 

 products of the Snakeroot family; one case containing both the Elm and 

 the Protead families; one case containing new products of the Fig 

 family; two unit cases devoted to the fruit characters, and various useful 

 products of the Sumach family; one case devoted to the products of 

 Yam and the Iris families; a case containing various characters and use- 

 ful products of the Coca family; one case illustrating the Lignum- vitae 

 and the Quassia families; one unit case showing the products of the 

 Mahogany family; two units devoted to the Connarus and the Bean 

 families; one case comprising the characters and useful materials yielded 



