portant addition to this department has been a group 

 of five ourang-ou tangs ; two adult males, two adult 

 females, and one young male, from Borneo. All the 

 specimens are perfect and mounted in most natural 

 attitudes, and prove to be the most attractive feature 

 of our exhibition on that floor. They were presented 

 with the case, complete, by Mr. Robert Colgate. 



Our fine collection of crania have been mounted in 

 the natural position on mahogany stands and placed in 

 case A, with three complete skeletons of natives of 

 Australia, presented by Mr. Morris K. Jesup. 



A fine case of water birds presented by the estate of 

 the late Elias Wade, Jr., is placed on the first landing 

 of the stairway. Six hundred bird-skins presented by 

 Mr. D. G. Elliot, and received in exchange from the 

 Smithsonian Institution, have been mounted and 

 placed on exhibition, and nearly four thousand birds, 

 including all of the Maximillian collection, and some 

 from that of Verreaux, have been transferred to new 

 stands of polished mahogany. This change has proved 

 to be such an important improvement that the re- 

 maining white stands, though the best we have been 

 able to purchase in Europe, will now have to be re- 

 placed in a like manner, that the whole collection may 

 be improved in the most complete manner, and present 

 an entirely uniform aspect. 



In the Department of Ethnology and Archaeology a 

 gift has just been received from the widow of the late 

 Prof. S. S. Haldemann, of domestic utensils, and dres- 

 ses of the natives of British Guiana, and of stone imple- 

 ments from various parts of the United States, particu- 

 larly from near his home at Chickies, Pennsylvania. 

 Mr. H. R. Bishop has arranged with Dr. J. YV. Powell, 



