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ores and rocks of the region were seciired by Assistant Curator Nichols. 

 Assistant Curator Hubbs carried on some local field work for the Depart- 

 ment of Zoology, obtaining a nimiber of specimens for moimting in 

 small groups, as well as a series of certain species for the study collection. 



Installation, Rearrangement, permanent Improvement — Most of the 

 time of the members of the staff of the Department of Anthropology 

 was consimied by the complex preparations in connection with the 

 moving operations, chiefly assembling, sorting, and arranging mate- 

 rial for packing, dismantling and charting cases, preparing and labeling 

 material for future installation in the new building, and keeping exact 

 records of the location of packed material. As a sequel to this labor, all 

 plans previously prepared for the halls of the new building were sub- 

 jected to a thorough revision and to numerous modifications. Frequent 

 visits were made to the new biiilding by members of the staff, and the 

 study of actual conditions permitted the visuaHzing of the situation 

 more correctly than was possible from the floor plans. The total result 

 of this year's packing in the Department of Anthropology may be 

 summed up in dry figures as follows: 615 exhibition cases, 320 boxes, 

 457 crates, 76 cartons, 80 bimdles or packages in burlap, and 27 kegs 

 and barrels. All these items have been properly labeled and nimibered. 

 The process of packing may be regarded as practically completed. 

 There were prepared for installation in the new building loi cases, 

 covering the Eskimo and the tribes of the northwest Coast of America, 

 the Coast and Interior Salish, and the Plateau Indians. This required 

 the complete or partial dismantling of 123 cases formerly on exhibi- 

 tion. In conformity with the new principles of installation, all dupH- 

 cate material was eliminated, which has resulted in a net saving of 

 twenty-two cases. In the new arrangement, also a considerable quan- 

 tity of material formerly in storage is placed on exhibition, while many 

 large specimens which have stood in the open, or have been attached 

 to the walls, are now safely sheltered behind glass. It has been the 

 endeavor to arrange the material in geographical and cultural sequence 

 using an adequate niunber of specimens to illustrate the every-day, 

 esthetic, and religious life of the people. In the Divisions of Archaeology 

 and Ethnology twenty-two cases were arranged for future installation 

 in the new building. These refer to the archaeology of Colombia and 

 Mexico and to the ethnology of the Upper Amazon, Central Brazil 

 and Paraguay. In most instances, all available material was selected 

 for exhibition, but surplus and duplicate objects have been relegated 

 to study and exchange collections. Special care has been taken of the 

 group cases. A detailed plan of each has been made to be utilized in 

 the new building for the reconstruction of the groups. Reproductions 



