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which fully exhibits the beauty of form, wonderful colors, and iri- 

 descence of these specimens. The Pompeiian collection secured by 

 the Director in San Francisco is temporarily installed in a hanging 

 wall-case in alcove 121, North Court, and is completely labeled. When 

 alcove 120 was vacated to make room for exhibits of the N. W. Harris 

 Public School Extension, the Roman mills, braziers, and other objects 

 were rearranged in the Court as best as its crowded condition would 

 permit. A portion of the ethnological material obtained by Dr. Dorsey 

 in India through the liberality of Messrs. Homer E. Sargent, Cyrus H. 

 McCormick, and Martin A. Ryerson, has been placed temporarily in 

 two wall cases in alcove 122. In H. N. Higinbotham Hall there 

 have been some changes in installation as well as rearrangement. 

 Hanging-cases 21 and 22, on the South Wall, were stripped of Algerian 

 jewelry, and in its stead was placed the Turkish, Armenian, Syrian, 

 and Arabian jewelry, formerly in case 17, along with the Bulgarian 

 jewelry from case 19. In the vacated space in case 19 were temporarily 

 placed Tibetan charm-boxes and earrings. Tibetan jewelry, consisting 

 of rings, bracelets, and hairpins, was also transferred from case 20 to 

 case 19. The Algerian jewelry from cases 21 and 22, along with a more 

 recent accession of the same material, was installed in the new case on 

 the East Wall of the hall. Some Colombian gold objects were taken 

 from the floor of case 24 and placed upon the floor of case 23. When 

 the Tibetan jewelry was removed from cases 19 and 20 for permanent 

 installation in Hall 49, a reinstallation of case 20 was made necessary. 

 This installation brought about some rearrangement of cases, Nos. 17 

 and 18 being moved from the East Wall to the North Wall, bringing 

 all the jewelry from India into a single group. Case 23 and a new case 

 were moved into vacated space upon the East Wall. Since Hall 48, 

 East Annex, utilized for several years past as a work-room, was needed 

 for the further exhibition of the Mrs. T. B. Blackstone collections, the 

 north end of Hall 71 was cleared of all ethnological material stored 

 there and equipped as a work-room, being in close proximity to the vast 

 Pacific Island collections yet to be installed and stored in the West An- 

 nex, there to await removal into the new building. To better condense 

 the ethnological material in the south end of Hall 71, the Volk collec- 

 tion and other material intended for exchange, as well as the large 

 model of the Ruins of Mitla, Mexico, have been placed in Hall 68, now 

 to be utilized for general storage. Six cases, heavily loaded with storage 

 material, were taken from Hall 71 and placed in Hall 72 for early in- 

 stallation. The two cases of stored Australian material now stand in 

 Hall 80, having been moved there from Hall 72. The drums, previ- 

 ously stored in Halls 79 and 80, having been shifted to Hall 68; those 



