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material, numerous crates and boxes were opened, and the material 

 arranged either for exhibition or study and exchange collections. The 

 best possible use has been made of the space available on the third 

 floor. Rooms 65 and 66 are utilized for the storage of East Asiatic 

 collections. Room 50 contains Japanese material, Room 48 Melanesian 

 collections, the greater part of which are stored in the Installation Hall, 

 Room 46 North American archaeology, Room 44 Indian blankets and 

 baskets. Room 42 Hopi material. Room 43 Southwest, Navaho and 

 Mission Indians material. Room 40 Mexican and South American 

 archaeology, Room 33 Northwest Coast collections, and Room 34 

 Malayan material. Exchange material is placed in Rooms 30 and 31. 

 Room 28 is allotted to study coll- ctions. Work on actual installation 

 of exhibition cases was begun on September 20th. During this brief 

 period of three months a total of 249 cases was installed or re-installed. 

 These cover all sections of the department. The Philippine Hall, 55 

 cases, with the exception of the large group-cases, the Chinese collec- 

 tions on the East Gallery Hall of the second floor, 64 cases, save several 

 large wall cases, and the greater portion of the West Gallery Hall, can 

 now be reported as being completely installed. Hopeful progress has 

 been made in the Joseph N. Field Hall (Melanesia), the Mexican and 

 Sbuth American Hall, the Southwest Hall, and the hall allotted to 

 Egyptian and classical archaeology. In the Mexican and South Ameri- 

 can Hall, nine cases have been newly installed; these illustrate Calchaqui 

 stone work, ethnology of the Upper Amazon, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, 

 and Ecuador, and Maya and Mexican archaeology. In every instance, 

 exhibition material was carefully sifted, and the new arrangement is 

 considerably improved upon the old system. A special hall, located on 

 the ground floor along the east side of the building, having been assigned 

 to the department for the exhibition of primitive means of navigation, 

 82 boats were placed and arranged in the hall during August. Five 

 exhibition cases, two illustrating boat-models from China, two with 

 boat-models and other means of transportation from India and Burma, 

 and one with similar material from New Guinea, were moved in and 

 placed at a somewhat later date. When completed this hall will prove an 

 attractive feattire in the building. It was decided to discard from 

 exhibition all table and upright cases which were found to be no longer 

 serviceable and hardly in harmony with the character of the new halls. 

 This step necessitated a complete vacating of these cases containing 

 large storage bases in which a large quantity of material had been 

 packed for transportation. This material has been temporarily stored 

 in Room 45 on the third floor. The Departmental Library has been 

 completely arranged and set in order in twenty-three cabinets in Room 



