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ment of the North Pacific Coast Hall and the shifting of the 

 Eskimo exhibit were delayed pending the completion of the 

 necessary cases. 



The labeling of the important exhibits has proceeded as 

 rapidly as the printed cards came to hand. The series of 

 tribal labels and location maps is now fairly complete and 

 makes our collections far more intelligible to the studious 

 visitor. 



In 1 914 this department began a series of January lectures 

 dealing with technical subjects in anthropology. This year 

 the subject was "Aboriginal American Art," and the lectures 

 were given by the Curator and Assistant Curator Spinden. 

 The attendance and interest in these lectures are encouraging. 



Eleven scientific papers have been published during the 



year in the Anthropological Papers, by members of 

 Publications \ , t „ 



the department staff. 



ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY 

 DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY 



Ralph W. Tower, Curator 



After a year of work in the Museum, Mr. Clarence R. 

 Halter resigned his position as laboratory assistant on Sep- 

 tember 30. His place has been taken by Mr. Charles F. 

 Herm, recently of Cornell Medical College and Rockefeller 

 Institute. Mr. Herm is a highly skilled technician, and his 

 scientific training will undoubtedly prove of great value to the 

 institution. Up to the present time this phase of departmental 

 activity has enjoyed but a mere existence, its energies being 

 spent almost entirely on work requisitioned by other depart- 

 ments. With the reorganization, practical and experimental 

 work has been planned which will show by actual demonstra- 

 tion the results of modern physiological thought. 



Among the large and difficult preparations which Messrs. 

 Johnstone and Cohn have completed this year, are 2 whales, 

 1 elk and 1 Asiatic deer. The total activities of this section 



