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COOPERATION OF THp: EXECUTIVK DEPARTMENTS OP THE <!OVEKNMENT. 



Valuable assistance has continued to be received from various depart- 

 ments and bureaus of the Government. Officers of the Army and 

 Nav}" stationed in the Philippine Islands and in other of the iumv pos- 

 sessions have made important contrilnitrons, having in some cases l)een 

 furnished with special outfits to facilitate their work of collecting. 

 Representatives of the Department of State abroad have also ))een 

 instrumental in securing interesting material. Special aclvnowledg- 

 ments are due to the Quartermaster's Department of the Army for 

 many courtesies in connection with the transportation of specimens 

 and outfits to and from distant points. Th(A relations of the ]\ruseum 

 to the IT. S. (Tcological Survey, the U. S. Fish Conunission, the P)io- 

 logical Survey, and the Divisions of Entomology and Botany of the 

 Department of Agriculture, and the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 in regard to collections transmitted, are referred to elsewhere. 



Through the courtesy of the Secretaiy of the Na\'y, Lieut. W. PI 

 SaflFord. U. S. Navy, who was stationed for some time on the island of 

 Guam, was permitted to sj^end several months at the Museum during 

 the winter of 1901-2 in classifying and labeling collections of anthro- 

 pology from the South Sea Islands. 



EXPOSITIONS. 



Pan-Atnet'ican J^xposition^ Buffalo, .New J^crk. — This (exposition 

 was opened on May 1, 1901, and continued imtil Noveml)er 1 of the 

 same year. The large and attractive exhibit made by tiic National 

 Museum has been described in the Annual Report for 1901, in a- joint 

 paper by Dr. Frederick W. True, the representative of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution and the Museum on the Government Board of Man- 

 agement, and Mr. William H. Holmes and I^r. George P. Merrill, 

 head curators, respective!}^, of anthropology and geologv. 



Sovfli Carolina Interstate and ^Yest Indian IJ.qtox'tlon, (Jharlexfon. — 

 In accordance with the direction of the President of the United States 

 that the Executive Departments and l)ureaus of the Government par- 

 ticipate in this exposition, which continued from December 1, 1901, 

 until May 31, 1902, a large collection selected from the exhibit of the 

 Museum at the Pan-American Exposition was shipped directly to 

 Charleston, the limitations of space making it impossible to utilize the 

 entire exhibit in that connection. Notwithstanding the short })eriod 

 available for arranging this display, it presented a line appearance and 

 attracted nuich attention. A report l;)y Dr. F. W. True on the exhibit 

 of the National Museum at this exposition is printed as Appendix V 

 to this report. 



Louisiana. Purchase Exposition^ St. Lovis^ Jlissoari. — For this expo- 

 sition, which will be held durino- the summer of 190-1, Congress has 



