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material made for the Exposition in New Orleans arrived too late to 

 be made fully available for exliibition, but a small representative series 

 of vessels and other objects of clay was forwarded to New Orleans. The 

 collection of ancient pottery, recently obtained from Chiriqui, Panama, 

 and partially paid for from the exposition funds, was also represented. 

 The most important accessions have been from the explorations of Mr. 

 L. H. Ay me, in Mexico. It is hoped that a portion at least of the pot- 

 tery court will be opened to the public by the end of the present calen- 

 dar year. 



(d) Department of Antiquities. 



Dr. Charles Eau has continued his work in the Department of An- 

 tiquities, carrying on toward completion the system of arrangement 

 which he began ten years ago. He reports important accessions from 

 the Bureau of Ethnology; from explorations of Edward Palmer in 

 Arizona; from Oaxaca, Mexico, by L. H. Ayme; from Costa Eica by J. 

 C. Zeledon; and from the island of Guadeloupe by Guesde. A very 

 valuable collection of casts of antiquities of Mexico and Yucatan has 

 been deposited in the Museum by Sefior Eufemio Abadiano, of Mexico, 

 by whom they were made. This collection, of which a list is given in 

 Part lY* of this report includes full-size reproductions of thirty-two ex- 

 ceedingly important objects, such as the Mexican Aztec Calendar Stone, 

 the Sacriiicial Stone, the Aztec Goddess of Death (Teoyoamiqui), and the 

 wonderful reclining figure of Chac-Mool. This collection has been for- 

 warded from New Orleans and will soon be on exhibition, and it is hoped 

 that by some means it may ultimately become the property of the Mu- 

 seum. It will be installed by the side of the Lorillard collection and other 

 Central American antiquities. These two collections of casts, together 

 with the originals already in possession of the Museum, will entirely fill 

 one of the small exhibition galleries and constitute a display of native 

 American sculpture and architecture which is equaled nowhere in the 

 world. 



16. DIYISION OF ZOOLOGY. 



[a) Department of Mammals. 



At the beginning of the year the work of the Mammal Department, 

 incident upon the preparation of a collection to be exhibited in New 

 Orleans, having been entirely completed, the regular routine work was 

 resumed. The Mammal exhibition hall has been rendered less attractive 

 than formerly by the removal of numerous large specimens to New Or- 

 leans, and a temporary rearrangement of the collections was attempted 

 in order to make the deficiencies less conspicuous. During the first 

 quarter of the year thirty-three mounted specimens were added to the 

 exhibition series, including several large forms, such as Siberian sheep, 

 a baboon, &c. A list of all the mounted mammals was made in Feb- 

 ruary, and soon afterwards temporary labels were written and distrib- 



* Accession 16185. 



