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5. ETHNOLOGY. 
pally concentrated throughout the year. nly have the ethnologieal 
collections Пу removed and re-arranged, but large additions 
have been made. In June a prolon tour through Pah was 
made by the Director of Museu xtensive collection of 
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Museum, was the result. Fu rmentations were made through 
the medium of the Agri-Horticultural Show, held at Kuala Lumpur in 
August; from various trips made by the Director of Museums, and 
from native collectors, who from time to time brought things in to the 
Museum, 
from the farther end of the zoological room, where a marble paved 
passage, 333 ft.x 11 ft., leads into the lower or general ethnological 
amongst : India, Arabia, Japan, China, Fiji, Papua, Siam, Borneo, 
history and one to antiquities, incorporated in the latter being the 
Hale collection of Peninsula stone implements and the Wray collection 
of British flint implements. 
A single bay of the wall-cases has an exhibition space of 6 ft. 5 ins. 
igh x 8 ft. 8 ins. wide x 2 ft. 7 ins. deep, each divided into two sheets of 
plate glass, 3 ft. 10 ins. x 6 ft., which gives an uninterrupted view of the 
interior, there being no cross bar as in the old cases. There is a total 
length of 87 ft. of table-cases divided into four tiers, and glazed with 
sheets of plate glass, 2 ft. x 3 ft. 2 ins. The centre of the room is occu- 
pied by y cannons, and all the available wall s has been u 
to the best advantage, that at the staircase end for the display of 
Malayan paddles and oars and the series of photographie enlarge- 
ments of Asiatic races. 
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