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tory progress. The work of tabulating and cataloguing the type- 

 specimens of the Hall Collection has been industriously carried 

 on, and enough matter is now ready to fill 170 pages of the 

 Bulletin. The work thus far has developed the presence of a 

 larger number of type specimens than was expected, and indi- 

 cates the existence of nearly double the number first estimated. 



A list of the Meteorites in the Museum has been compiled by 

 Assistant Curator Hovey, and was published in the last volume of 

 the Bulletin. This discloses the extreme poverty of the Museum 

 in this group of objects as compared with many of the museums 

 in other countries ; the contrast is so great that I cite some of the 

 instances. Our Museum possesses specimens representing 25 

 falls ; while the British Museum has specimens representing 444 ; 

 Budapest National Museum, 306 ; Vienna, 498 ; Paris Natural 

 History Museum, 401 ; and the U. S. National Museum, Wash- 

 ington, 377. A similar unfavorable showing is made when the 

 number of these objects is compared with those owned by Various 

 other institutions and by private collectors, and I trust that means 

 may be forthcoming in the near future which shall enable the 

 Trustees to provide for this deficiency. 



The need of a change of location for the mineral collection 

 has become manifest. The portions of the wing now occu- 

 pied by these objects should be assigned to the collections 

 of shells and invertebrate zoology, and the adjoining hall in 

 the new west wing should be used to better display the mineral 

 specimens, many of which are deposited in drawers, and conse- 

 quently inaccessible to the visitor, except on application to the 

 Curator. In noting this condition, I realize the advantage of a 

 proper display of the Gem Collection, and the superb group of 

 objects forming the exhibit from the Copper Queen Consolidated 

 Mining Company. There are not enough cases- to properly ex- 

 hibit the entire collection, and the specimens are very much 

 crowded. This condition will disappear, however, as soon as the 

 cases for the new wing are completed. 



One of the most valuable and interesting donations is a collec- 

 tion of various fossils from Jamaica, W. I. Some of these are of 

 very remarkable type, and will form the basis for very valuable 

 contributions to the Museum publications. These specimens are 



