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nesian Hall will do very well under the same conditions if we 
could separate and place in another hall somewhat larger the 
Papuan portion of our collection. These two halls would amply 
accommodate all the material we ought to exhibit or can afford to 
exhibit with the present income of the Museum funds. Unless we 
have money to buy certain private collections, we cannot get 
things from the Pacific desirable for exhibition in the department 
of Polynesian Ethnology simply because they do not exist outside 
collections made many years ago, and any proposed ethnological 
exploration of the Pacific islands must begin by securing these 
private collections which contain far more material for exhibition 
purposes than can now be collected on the islands. 
I turn to the things in hand,—-pleasanter matter for the earn- 
est man than the dream of what might be if we were all wise and 
had command of sufficient money. We have by no means been 
stranded but have gone slowly on with some things to cheer us as 
may be seen in the appended lists of accessions. We have secured 
the services of a thoroughly competent entomologist in the person 
of Mr. Otto H. Swezey, and for the first time the collections of 
Mr. R. C. lL. Perkins, for which the Museum contributed one- 
third of the cost of collecting and more than one-half the expense 
of publication, are being utilized and arranged for inspection by 
students. Under the unfortunate arrangement for the distribu- 
tion of the remarkable collection of Mr. Perkins, the portion com- 
ing to this Museum of course could not include any species of 
which there were less than three specimens collected and so has 
none of the very rare ones, yet it is a sufficiently important collec- 
tion to be worth all the care that we can bestow upon it. 
We have also been fortunate in securing the services of Miss 
E. Schupp, formerly Secretary in the Seckenberger Museum at 
Frankfurt a/M to take charge of our well-selected and growing 
library. Mr. J. F. G. Stokes has not only attended to his work 
as Curator of Ethnology, but has been occupied with necessary 
work in other departments now without a head, and has done ex- 
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