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B.—_MAYER MUSEUM. 
(a) GENERAL. 
The following is the arrangement of the galleries in this Museum. 
In the upper floor are to be found illustrations of the history, art and 
eraft of the various families of the Mongolian Race; on the ground 
floor, together with the Main Hall and its balcony, those of the 
Caucasians, and in the basement those of the Melanian peoples. 
A small but interesting collection of Egyptian antiquities has been 
received from the British School of Archeology in Egypt, per 
Professor W. M. F. Petrie. 
The room devoted to Local History and Archeology has received 
many important additions which have materially assisted in adding 
interest to that section, which is slowly but surely becoming a source 
of interest to many of the citizens. 
The Melanian department continues as hitherto to receive 
numerous acquisitions, mostly from the West and South-West Coast 
of Africa. The Mayer Museum is again indebted to Mr. A. Ridyard, 
} Chief Engineer (Elder, Dempster & Co.), who has been most 
indefatigable in inducing nis friends on the coast to collect and 
_ present desirable objects to this department. 
Numerous exhibits in the Melanian department have been placed 
; on exhibition as received, and the result is most of the cases have 
become congested, relief being given by adapting several old cases 
to present requirements, and additional cases are now being 
constructed. 
A further exchange of duplicate African Ethnographical objects 
has been effected with Dr. H. C. Bumpus, Director, American 
Museum of Natural History, New York, fof a collection of 
Hthnography from the Philippine Islands previously unrepresented 
in the Museums. 
Throughout the year numerous exhibits have been repaired, 
mounted, and placed on exhibition in their respective sections. 
