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I need not extend my description of this great exhibition, for 

 most of yon have seen it. I again visited the Museum of Anthro- 

 pology in the Affiliated Colleges, where Mr. E. W. Gifford spent 

 much time in showing me the treasures in his charge, and on 

 which he lectures Sunday afternoons. By his invitation I met, 

 that evening at a dinner at the Faculty Club, Drs. Waterman and 

 Sapir, and also an old friend of mine, Dr. Setchel, Professor of 

 Botany in the University of California. 



I was greatly interested in the railroad up Tamalpais, a moun- 

 tain that I had climbed fifty-one years ago. Few, alas, of the old 

 redwoods remained, except in the wooded glen named in honor of 

 my departed friend, John Muir. 



Just before leaving San Francisco, Dr. B. W. Evermann 

 returned from the East, and renewed his promise to come to this 

 Museum at the earliest possible date. 



Greatly refreshed by meeting man}- old and new friends and 

 by the bracing coolness of the climate, I returned on the China, 

 July 30th. 



NEW STEEL STORAGE CASES. 



When the Laboratory building was planned it was hoped that 

 in addition to the fire-proof nature of the structure, cases could be 

 found suitable for the protection of perishable specimens such as 

 bird skins, kapa and mats, in this climate abounding in indefatig- 

 able indigenous and imported insect pests, but for some time none 

 were found quite satisfactory. For birds especially, of which the 

 Museum has a large and rare collection of the native avifauna, 

 and some good representative specimens from other parts of the 

 Pacific and its shores, this protection was v'er}- necessary. The 

 Henshaw collection of Hawaiian birds is very fine, and many 

 of the specimens collected for the Museum by A. Scale in the 

 southeast Pacific and Solomon Islands are of value, and although 

 the curatorship of ornithology has been vacant for some years the 



collection has been cared for, and this year steel cases have been 



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