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Shastan collection was removed from a standard case to storage and 

 will be re-installed at a later date. This change was made necessary by 

 the arrival of new material. Six Peabody cases formerly used for storage 

 purposes in Halls 68, 69 and 72, emptied of their contents in the process 

 of packing, were removed and stored in the basement to give floor 

 space for the cartons containing skeletal material in Hall 69 and the 

 crated Melanesian material in Hall 72. In the repair section of the 

 Department four hundred and forty-nine objects were restored, and 

 more than two hundred and fifty received treatment. There were 

 50,591 new numbers marked on specimens, chiefly those relating to 

 physical anthropology and archaeological collections from Columbia, 

 Peru and Argentine. 



In lieu of installation in the Department of Botany this year, all 

 effort of the staff, with the exception of herbarium installations and 

 the work of plant reproduction, was expended in preparation for moving 

 the collections to the new building. All those exhibition-cases designed 

 to be moved without disinstallation, and intended to be kept on exhibi- 

 tion until moved, have been opened, their contents and labels securely 

 anchored in place, and the storage locker contents packed in containers 

 therein. In the east and west court galleries two hollow rectangular 

 spaces were enclosed by these cases and within them 60 cases, secluded 

 from public view, were completely disinstalled and their contents 

 packed for shipment in the lockers beneath. In this manner more than 

 half of the Department cases are now ready for shipment without seri- 

 ously impairing the public attractiveness of the botanical display as 

 long as the present building may be open. The activities of the Mrs. 

 Stanley Field Plant Reproduction section have resulted in the production 

 of the following life-like studies that have either been installed in the 

 families to which they pertain or cased on view temporarily, awaiting 

 true installation: A complete Pitcher-leaf plant (Nepenthes) in full leaf, 

 flower and ' ' pitcher, ' ' enlarged male and female flowers, and a ' ' pitcher "in 

 section showing its contents of partly digested insects; a large Trumpet 

 Creeper vine (Bignonia) in full leaf, flower and fruit, a Catalpa flower 

 in section, revealing its essential organs, a long rachis of Saussage 

 fruits (Kigelia) with leaf above and two clusters of Candle-tree fruits 

 (Parmentiera) suspended from the trunk of the tree; a complete plant 

 of Poison Ivy {Toxicodendron) in full vernal leaf and flower, another in 

 autumnal maturity with colorate leaves and ripe fruit, a section of a 

 floral cluster enlarged to reveal the tree distinctive floral characters of 

 the family, a leafy twig of the Mango (Mangifera) in ripe fruit and 

 another of Kemanga in like condition; a large branch of Gonocaryum 

 in full leaf, flower and fruit, produced from material and studies secured, 



