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displayed and labeled and to which numerous additions have re- 

 cently been made. In the gallery of the court are the collections of 

 ceramics, glass-ware, bronzes, etc., and in the north gallery of the 

 hall is the exhibit of the division of medicine. 



The southern part of the building has been allotted to two divi- 

 sions, which, organized some 30 years ago but soon discontinued on 

 account of lack of space, have recently been reestablished on a 

 broader basis and have already attained considerable prominence. 

 One of these is the division of textiles, including also such animal 

 and vegetable products as do not specifically belong elsewhere. To 

 this division have been assigned the south hall, the east south range, 

 and the southeast court, together with a considerable amount of 

 gallery space. While much of the original collection, when removed 

 from storage, was found to be still serviceable, the greater part of 

 the textile display, which is exceedingly rich and varied in its repre- 

 sentation of this industry in the United States, is the accumulation of 

 only two years. There is also a fair illustration of the work done 

 in the Philippines and some examples from Porto Pico. The exhi- 

 bition of animal and vegetable products is much less advanced, and 

 there is still to be taken up the subjects of commercial woods and 

 of foods. 



The division of mechanical technology has been assigned the west 

 hall, the south west and west south ranges, and the southwest court, 

 the occupation of all of which has been planned, in part definitely, 

 in part provisionally. The objects of this division are to illustrate 

 the processes involved in extracting minerals from the earth, and in 

 the utilization of the products so obtained, with the intention of 

 covering all the important minerals, both metallic and nonmetallic. 

 Progress with this exhibition will be slow, because of the time re- 

 quired to build models, in which the mining and manufacturing 

 interests are giving hearty and generous support, even to the extent 

 of furnishing expensive reproductions of their works and operations. 

 The first of the exhibits, opened to the public last year, relate mainly 

 to the subject of coal, and include several excellent models, the largest 

 of which, representing a bituminous colliery, occupies fully half the 

 floor space of the southwest court. A number of other models and 

 exhibits were also completed and installed, and additional ones were 

 in course of construction. 



COLLECTIONS. 



The additions to the collections aggregated approximately 337,705 

 specimens, apportioned among the several branches of the Museum 

 as follows, namely : Anthropology, 14,879 ; zoology, 257,816, of which 

 over 214,000 were insects; botany, 44,675; geology and mineralogy, 

 3,648; paleontology, 13,045; textiles and other animal and vegetable 



