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the Danish station at North Star Bay would attempt to go 

 north to Etah in an effort to bring the main expedition party 

 down to the " Cluett " in time for that ship to come south this 

 season. Since that time no news of the relief ship has been 

 received, with the exception of a letter from Mr. Rasmussen 

 corroborating his telegram. Letters from Messrs. MacMillan 

 and Ekblaw, dated March and April, and giving plans for the 

 1915 spring work, were received via Denmark on 4 December. 

 The necessity of the relief ship's wintering in the North will 

 of course be a very heavy expense to the Committee. Since 

 Curator Hovey's departure, Assistant Secretary George H. 

 Sherwood has been Acting Chairman of the Committee in 

 Charge. 



The installation of the material from Weyer's Cave, Vir- 

 ginia, is almost completed. This exhibit has been placed 



_ , .. . . alongside the Copper Queen Cave, and will be as 

 Exhibition _ - . . , ' ^ 



fascinating and instructive as the Copper Queen 



Cave has been. Approximately 1,725 specimens from the 

 Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous 

 periods have been installed in the remodeled cases in the exhi- 

 bition hall. 



In order to provide room for the housing of the large 

 Porto Rican collection, it was necessary to store a large 

 amount of the duplicate material of the James Hall 

 to- r u collection. The specimens of the x'orto Rican col- 



lection were then unpacked, washed and sorted as 

 to classes. The Schrammen collection of fossils acquired 

 last year was removed from the Columbus Avenue storeroom 

 to the mezzanine workroom to provide working space for 

 specialists engaged on a study of the drill core samples col- 

 lected by the engineers of the Board of Water Supply. Owing 

 to lack of space in the Museum, the collection has been 

 retained by the Board of Water Supply. Some time has been 

 spent in identifying and labeling the Dr. Marshall collection 

 of specimens from the terminal moraine at Hollis and Jamaica, 

 Long Island. 



