34 | REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1906. 
In technology the collection of arms deposited by the United States 
Cartridge Company, elsewhere described, has added a most interest- 
ing and popular feature. Being accompanied by handsome mahogany 
cases built expressly for the purpose, its installation was readily 
accomplished. Small additions have also been made to other exhibi- 
tion series in this division, which is being developed along certain lines 
as rapidly as possible under the present unfavorable conditions. 
The gallery of ceramics received a few additions, notably the exhi- 
bition of the Libby Glass Company, illustrating the manufacture of 
cut glass. There is nothing special to note in regard to the exhibits 
in graphic arts and medicine, except in the matter of labeling, since 
the space assigned to these divisions is now fully occupied. 
A selection from collections in storage illustrating the principal 
phases of the doctrines and rites of the western (Roman Catholic) and 
eastern (Greek Catholic and Armenian) churches was installed. The 
historical collection received some important objects, and a series of 
American coins and medals and of Japanese coins, made up from the 
Capron purchase and a gift from the Government of Japan, were 
placed on exhibition. 
In the Department of Biology the several large mammals mounted 
for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and subsequently shown at 
the Lewis and Clark Exposition, were, after their return to Washing- 
ton, arranged in the gallery of the south hall, the only place that could 
be found for them. Although these and the other large mammals from 
the St. Louis Exposition are among the most valuable additions which 
have been made to this exhibition series for some time, it has not been 
practicable to inclose them under glass. A number of other mammals 
of small to medium size, chiefly from the oriental region, were mounted 
and installed during the year, and the heads of large game on the wall 
space above the gallery were renovated and rearranged. 
The large series of cases in the Smithsonian main hall containing 
North American birds were thoroughly cleansed inside. The speci- 
mens themselves were also cleaned and put in order. Some progress 
was made in substituting the new pattern of label holder, adopted the 
year before, and new labels were printed for the birds of Australia 
and neighboring regions. The fine exhibition collection of birds can, 
however, never be shown effectively in the antiquated cases which it 
now occupies. 
Skeletons of a large sulphurbottom whale (of the same species as 
the cast in the south hall), of an adult little piked whale, of a dodo, 
and of an African elephant, were added to the osteological series, 
which was almost entirely relabeled. The cutting off, for storage of 
the Schaus collection of Lepidoptera, of a part of the exhibition hall 
devoted to reptiles and fishes, necessitated an entire rearrangement of 
