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The specimens received during the year have been catalogued and 

 cared for in the usual way, but the available spaces are already so 

 fully occupied that new material can not be placed on view save by 

 storing the earlier collections. The Department has not been able to 

 add to its case room, and storage facilities remain, as before, entirely 

 inadequate. Owing to the lack of laboratory space one or more of 

 the halls have been closed throughout the year as workrooms, and 

 no little confusion has resulted from this and the disturbance due to 

 the selection, mounting, labeling, and boxing of exhibits for the Pan- 

 American Exposition. 



The work of labeling the Museum exhibits has been continued, and 

 very considerable advances have been made in the direction of print- 

 ing, framing, and placing case labels in various halls. 



The following details with regard to progress made in preserving 

 and installing the collections of the Department are introduced from 

 the reports of the heads of divisions and sections: 



Prof. Otis T. Mason, curator of the Division of Ethnology, says 

 that— 



No hall or collection has been installed in the division daring the fiscal year 1901. 

 Most of the time of my assistants has been taken up with the preparation of exhibits 

 for the Pan-American Exposition. For the preservation and installation of speci- 

 mens in my custody the space and resources are well-nigh exhausted, and I hail with 

 pleasure the announcement that new galleries are to be erected to relieve the 

 situation. 



The continued ill health of my clerk made it necessary to employ expert help 

 temporarily. I was fortunate in securing the services of Miss Harriet G. Fracker, 

 whose long connection with the Intercontinental Railway Commission fitted her for 

 the difficult task of preparing labels and of reading proof in Spanish, French, and 

 German. 



Dr. Hough, assistant curator <>f this division, spent a good portion of the year in 

 getting together materials for the Pan-American Exposition and in cataloguing 

 accessions, and in May proceeded to New Mexico and Arizona for the. purpose of 

 conducting explorations in conjunction with Mr. Peter G. (iates. 



The following-named halls are used for exhibition: 



(«) The west north range is devoted to North American tribes. Twice the area 

 here provided is required to show adequately the industrial life of our tribes. We 

 are rich in material of this soil and it should be displayed. 



(h) The north west range. The Eskimo collections occupy about one-half of the 

 range, and might well take the entire space. ' After the return of the Pan- American 

 material this whole collection should he reinstalled. The southeastern Alaskan col- 

 lection occupies only the north end of the range, a space entirely inadepuate to its 

 exhibition. The entire range should lie either Eskimo or Indian. 



(c) The northwest court is given up entirely to the tribes of the arid region of 

 southwestern United States. The rich pottery collection here crowds out other con- 

 siderations. It would require four timet; the space to install properly the collections 

 from this area. 



((/) The northwest gallery is devoted to basketry on two si.les, to the Republic of 

 Mexico on the north side, while the whole of Central and South America are crowded 

 into the cases on the south side. I do not know what 1 am going to do with the 



