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for work along this line in North Carolina; Dr. Arthur Rollick, 

 assistant curator of botany in the New York Botanical Gardens, who 

 made examinations of fossil plants in connection with his work on the 

 island series of the Upper Cretaceous in preparation for his proposed 

 investigations on the Yukon River during the summer of 1903; and 

 Prof. H. F. Osborn, Dr. S. W. WiUiston, Dr. O. P. Hay, Mr. J. B. 

 Hatcher, and Dr. William Patten, all of whom are carrying on 

 researches of greater or less extent upon fossil vertebrates. 



Among the most important loans and gifts made from this depart- 

 ment during the year were material furnished to the Division of 

 Chemistry and Physics of the U. S. Geological Syrvey, and the Divi- 

 sion of Roads and the Bureau of Soils of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture; specimens of Upper Carboniferous insects to Dr. C. E. Beecher, 

 of the Peabody Museum of Yale Universit}^; specimens of Crinoids to 

 Prof. A. W. Grabau, of Columbia University; specimens of Tertiary 

 insects to Prof. S. W. Williston, of the University of Chicago, for 

 monographic work; a large number of Carboniferous insects to Dr. 

 Anton Handlirsch, of the Royal Austrian Museum, Vienna, also for 

 monographic work; and a large number of Lower Siluric graptolites 

 from New Yqrk, Vermont, and Massachusetts, to Dr. John M. Clarke, 

 State paleontologist of New York, 



PROGRESS IN THE INSTALLATION OF THE EXHIBITION COLLECTIONS. 



The overcrowded condition of the public halls which began a num- 

 of 3^ears ago precludes an}" extensive additions to the exhibition series, 

 and this must continue until the completion of the new building 

 recently authorized by Congress. Small objects can be given a place 

 here and there, but any considerable ch'anges are rendered possil)le 

 only through the withdrawal and transfer to storage of collections 

 alread}^ on display. During the past 3'ear the principal progress made 

 in this connection has had reference to improvements in the methods 

 and details of installation. 



In the Department of Anthropology temporary accommodations 

 have been furnished on the gallery of the north-west court for the 

 important ethnological collections from the Philippine Islands dis- 

 played at the Pan-American Exposition. The entire Eskimo collection 

 has been gone over, and the large series of specimens secured ])y the 

 Museum-Gates expedition has been arranged in the storage-cases of 

 the Pueblo court. The labeling of the historical collections has been 

 completed, and new case laliels have been prepared for the Divisions 

 of Historic and Prehistoric Archeology and for the section of historic 

 religious ceremonials. ^ The cases containing the manuscripts and vari- 

 ous editions of the Bible were repainted, and the collections rearranged 

 to facilitate their examination by visitors. 



