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accessible the entire reserve collections in ethnology, which have to 
some extent been scattered indifferent places, partial means have been 
provided for bringing them together in unit drawers, properly classi- 
fied and labeled. The segregation and rearrangement of the material 
representing the Eskimo, the Northwest coast and Pueblo Indians, 
and that from Africa and the East Indies has been finished, and a find- 
ing-catalog of the Eskimo and Northwest coast objects has been pre- 
pared. The large Abbott collection has been assembled in one place, 
and work upon it is still in progress. A part of one side of the Pueblo 
court has been screened off as a laboratory, and the storage facilities 
back of the exhibition cases have been increased by the addition of 400 
unit drawers. 
In the division of prehistoric archeology the routine work was 
largely directed toward the rearrangement of the exhibition hall, 
although the care of current accessions occupied the usual amount of 
time. 
Notwithstanding the diversity of subjects falling under the head of 
technology, and the great extent of the collections, a considerable 
part of which it is still necessary to retain in storage, the material 
belonging to this division has been kept in good condition, and much 
attention has been given to the history and labeling of the different 
objects. In the division of graphic arts the Cranch collection of many 
hundred prints was classified and arranged, and full descriptions of 
each print are being prepared for use as labels. The study series has 
been assembled in storage drawers back of the exhibition cases. 
The collection illustrating Christian ceremonial or ecclesiastical art, 
comprizing about 930 objects, was withdrawn from storage, numbered, 
cataloged, and arranged for study purposes. 
In the gallery room assigned to the reserve series in history suit- 
able racks have been constructed for the portrait collection and drawer 
racks for the duplicate specimens. The indexing and cataloging of 
the portraits were continued during the year. 
In the preparatory laboratories of the Department of Anthropology 
there was no cessation of activity at any time during the year. It is 
there that all the casting, modeling, and coloring of specimens are 
done, that the lay figures are prepared for the exhibition cases, and 
that the poisoning and cleaning of objects are conducted. Nowhere 
else has the preparator’s art in anthropology been carried to a higher 
stage of perfection, a fact that will be prominently demonstrated in 
the halls of the new building. 
In the division of mammals the extensive collections of rabbits and 
marmots and of small to medium sized skulls were rearranged in sys- 
tematic order, new cases for the former having been constructed at 
the entrance to the mammal laboratory. In the division of birds some 
5,000 duplicates were overhauled and invoiced, The hornbills, now 
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