KEPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



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The work of labeling the exhibits has been carried forward with all 

 possible energy during the year, and great advance has been made 

 over previous years, especially in the labeling of the larger units, such 

 as halls, alcoves, groups of exhibits, and cases. 



In the Division of Ethnology the Philippine collection has been 

 temporarily arranged in cases in the north-west court gallery; the col- 

 lections obtained through the Museum-Gates expedition in Arizona 

 during the previous year Have been placed in good order in the storage 

 series of the Pueblo "^court, and Mr. Thomas W. Sweeny has classified 

 and rearranged the large Eskimo study collection in the storage bases of 

 the north-west range. ^Mr. Joseph Palmer and Mr. Charles Luscombe 

 have been engaged in mending, modeling, making facsimilies of 

 specimens, and allied lal^oratory work. 



During the entire fiscal year the hall of prehistoric archeology has 

 been doused on account of repairs, but the work of cataloguing and 

 caring for the collections has gone on without interruption under the 

 supervision of Mr. E. P. Upham. 



A large collection of Washington relics, transferred to the Museum 

 from the Patent Office, has been installed in the hall of American history 

 in connection with cognate exhibits, under the supervision of Mr. 

 A. H. Clark and Mr. Paul Beckwith. The exhibition series in this 

 division is all labeled^ and the crowded condition of the study series 

 has been greatly relieved by removing portions of it to the new gal- 

 leries. It has long been felt that a suitable catalogue of the historical 

 collections should be prepared for publication by the Museum, and 

 during the year this work was initiated by the employment of Miss 

 Elizabeth Bryant Johnston, who has completed a descriptive catalogue 

 of the personal relics of George Washington. 



In the Division of Physical Anthropology there is as yet no exhibition 

 series, the time of the new curator. Doctor Hrdlicka, having been 

 devoted to organizing the division and fitting up a laboratory of 

 anthropometry. 



In the sections of historic religious ceremonials and classical arche- 

 ology, few changes have been made save that the labeling has been 

 carried practically to completion. 



In the Division of Medicine the curator has been engaged in prepar- 

 ing a card catalogue of the collections. Each specimen, whether on exhi- 

 bition, in the study series or in storage, has an individual card, giving 

 name, nmnber. collector, mode of acquisition, etc. 



EXPLORATIONS. 



During the year a very limited amount of field work has been under- 

 taken by members of the Department\s stafl'. Mr. W. H. Holmes 

 continued his explorations in archeology on behalf of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology. Under his direction numerous mound relics and fossd 



