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intention that the hall is ultimately to contain only the ethnology 

 of the North Pacific Coast of America. When the transfer of 

 several small collections is finished, the cases on the east side of 

 the hall will contain only the Emmons and Bishop collections 

 from British Columbia, while in the cases on the west side will be 

 exhibited the collections made by the parties of the Jesup North 

 Pacific Expedition. 



The principal collections received during the year, which have 

 been catalogued and prepared, are the collections from Japan ; 

 collections from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1898 ; col- 

 lection illustrating the African iron industry ; collections made in 

 Mexico ; the exchange collections obtained from the ethnological 

 Museums of Berlin and Dresden ; and the large collections of 

 casts of sculptures from Mexico and Central America. The en- 

 tries made in the department catalogue during the year number 

 21,120. 



Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology. — After plan- 

 ning for the field work of the season in Kansas, Nebraska, and 

 Wyoming, Professor Osborn, the curator of this department, went 

 abroad and visited the Museums of Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin, 

 St. Petersburg, Moscow, Leipsic, Halle, Vienna, Munich, Stutt- 

 gart, Darmstadt, Basle, Lyons, Paris, and London. Methods of 

 exhibition were studied, and arrangements were made for ex- 

 changes with our Museum, several of which have already been 

 effected. 



The second expedition for Dinosaurs was sent out to Wyoming 

 in charge of Dr. J. L. Wortman, with a party of four. Deposits 

 of Dinosaur bones very favorably situated were found. The 

 party remained in camp at this place from its opening in June 

 until the close of the field season on October 1, leaving one of its 

 members in charge in order to prevent a 'jumping' of the 

 Museum claim upon this remarkable locality. In all some 60,000 

 pounds of fossils were secured. This splendid collection reached 

 the Museum entirely uninjured, and one third of it has already 

 been worked out, under the direction of the preparator, Mr. 

 Hermann. 



The fore and hind limbs of these monster reptiles will furnish 

 subjects of great interest for the public. The exhibition hall has 

 been enriched this year by the skeletons of two great Dinosaurs. 



