FUTURE SCOPE AND ARRANGEMENT OF EXHIBITIONS 



also known and may be splendidly shown both in transparencies 

 and in large mural restorations. 



At this time the first small mammals were discovered and gave 

 transition to the Caenozoic life of the South Hall, which will be devoted 

 to the TERTIARY MAMMALS. This hall, which represents the 

 results of twenty years of exploration and purchase, is now overcrowded, 

 and it is proposed to move the Quaternary mammals into the Pavilion 

 Hall beyond, the ample proportions of which lend themselves admirably 

 to the crowning forms of LIFE OF PLEISTOCENE times, the great 

 elephants and mastodons of North America, as well as the ponderous 

 forms of South America, assembled in our Pampean Collection. 



This will complete the circuit of the Past Histoiy of Life in a 

 manner which will be unrivaled in any museum in the world, and it is 

 peculiarly appropriate to present in mural paintings on the walls here 

 the Pleistocene man as a hunter of these great mammals in Europe and 

 North America and as the artist who depicted forms with rare fidelity 

 on the walls of caves in Europe. This PLEISTOCENE Hall, there- 

 fore, like that below it, connects perfectly the zoological with the 

 anthropological section to the west, and gives us a perfect sequence. 



The Hall of AFRICAN ANTHROPOLOGY, to the west, is rapidly 

 being prepared for the munificent gifts of the late King of the Belgians, 

 through a number of important purchases, through photographs 

 donated to us by several explorers, and through our own expeditions 

 in various parts of Africa. It is one of the halls in which a splendid 

 arrangement and exhibition is already in sight. The visitor then 

 passes into the Southwest Pavilion displaying the anthropology of 

 the PACIFIC ISLANDS, of POLYNESIA, of HAWAII, where our 

 collections are still in the initial stage. 



In the adjoining hall of the Southwest Wing, however, we enter the 

 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, where our collections are really very rich 

 and promise to be nearly complete in the course of a few more years. 

 The next section west of the Entrance Pavilion brings us naturally 

 to CHINA AND JAPAN, from which we have already secured, through 

 the East Asiatic Committee, gifts from Mr. u J. H. Schiff, Mr. Edward D. 



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