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ever, has now reached its proper limit for some years to 

 come, and the application of an enlarged endowment, which 

 is urgently needed, will be mainly in the direction of placing 

 on exhibition the superb material from many lands with 

 which our storage rooms are still crowded. 



The plan for the general rearrangement of our great and 

 rapidly increasing collections and exhibition halls, including 

 the movement in the direction of a final ideal plan which shall 

 be popular, educational and scientific, has made marked 

 progress, but has not yet reached a stage where it can be 

 published. 



The maintenance of the Museum by the City has been 

 increased for 1911 to $189,757, but if this were enlarged to 

 the legal limit of $200,000, enjoyed by our sister Museum of 

 Art, it would still fall far below the actual expenditures for 

 maintenance, which amounted in the year 1910 to $229,259.38. 



During the present year the whole exhibition space, includ- 

 ing the new West Wing, has been completely occupied and 

 application has been made to the Park Department for the 

 erection of a new wing. 



We take this opportunity of acknowledging the spirit of 

 cordial cooperation which has animated Park Commissioner 

 Stover and the members of the Board of Estimate and Appor- 

 tionment. 



EXHIBITION, INSTALLATION, ALTERATION 



The chief work of the past year has been the equipment 

 and preparation for exhibition of the new West Wing of the 

 Museum on Columbus Avenue and the rearrangement and 

 transfer of the exhibitions and collections in the Department of 

 Anthropology connected therewith. Thus a number of notable 

 collections, some of which have been in the Museum for many 

 years, have been installed for the public in the following new 

 exhibition halls: 



Philippine Islands, Fourth Floor, New Wing 

 South Sea Islands, Fourth Floor, New Wing 

 Indians of the Southwest, First Floor, New Wing 

 African Ethnology, Second Floor, New Wing 



