40 EEPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



The work of arranging the collections of prehistoric archeology 

 according to geographical divisions has been continued, six slope-top 

 cases liaving been fitted up during the j^ear with the following exhib- 

 its: Flint implements from ancient quarr}" sites and workshops in 

 middle Egypt; stone implements, spearheads, stone beads, shell orna- 

 ments and small pottery vessels from the island of Utilla, Honduras; 

 stone beads, carved stone pendants, a copper ax, pottery spindle- 

 whorls, etc., from Mexico; stone implements and utensils, shell imple- 

 ments, pottery vessels, etc., from the islands of St. Kitts, St. Barthol- 

 omew, and Nevis, West Indies; polished stone hatchets from St. 

 Elizabeths Parish, Jamaica; polished stone hatchets, shell implements, 

 and large potter}^ bowls from Jamaica. In the alcove containing the 

 antiquities from western Asia the plaster casts have been rearranged, 

 and casts from Persepolis and a large relief map of Palestine have 

 been added. 



Thirty-eight wing frames containing photographs supplementing 

 the collections relating to the Jewish religion, Mohammedanism, 

 Brahmanism, and the Greco-Roman religions have been placed on the 

 south gallery of the west hall, and many improvements in this series 

 have been made. 



Many articles have been added to the collections of American history 

 in the noi'th hall, but this hall has long been overcrowded, and a 

 number of interesting objects which belong to it are still in storage. 



Extensive improvements have been made in the installation of the 

 collections in mechanical technology, especially in the sections of land 

 and water transportation, and many additions have been made to the 

 collections in electricit3\ The type collection of small firearms of 

 early patterns and of modern breech-loading and magazine guns has 

 been suitably installed and labeled. The series of time-keeping appa- 

 ratus, including- some interesting recent additions, has been ai'ranged 

 in special cases in the east hall. Noteworthy among its contents are 

 a variety of sundials, including one used l)y the Montagnais Indians 

 of Canada — a pole set upright in the snow — several rare sunglasses, a 

 fine Persian astrolobe, a German time-indicating lamp, a water clock 

 of the seventeenth century, and ^vatches dating from the beg-inning of 

 the fifteenth century. 



Among the additions in the Department of Biology were many 

 finely mounted specimens of American manmials and birds, a part of 

 the display at the Pan-American Exposition, the former including a 

 large specimen of Steller's sea lion, an Alaskan moose, a British Colum- 

 bian caribou, a musk ox, a glacier and a Kadiak bear, two wild sheep 

 {Ovis dalli and O. Honel), and a skeleton of the Kadiak bear. Three 

 groups of game l)irds Avere added to the series of game animals. In 

 the southeast Museum range, allotted to reptiles, batrachians, and 

 fishes, some improvements have been made, several new cases being 



