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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 

 niav 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. Swe/.ey, and for the first time the collections of 

 Mr. R. C. L. 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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