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39. With the co-operation of the departmental staS, the Musetim Hbra- 

 rians completed this task within a few weeks. As all books pertaining 

 to anthropology, also those formerly stacked in the main library, are 

 now assigned to the departmental collection, it was necessary to prepare 

 a new set of catalogue cards in conformity with this new arrangement, 

 and the nimiber of the cabinet in which a book is placed has been added 

 to each card, so that it is possible to promptly locate a volimie. The 

 Bagobo group has been completed and the figure of theHopi boomerang- 

 thrower remodeled. 



In the Department of Botany the entire staff of the department 

 proper was employed during the first five months of the year in finishing 

 preparation for moving into the halls and rooms set aside for it in the 

 new building. The specimens in all those exhibition cases not prepared 

 during the closing months of the previous year were sectired in place, or 

 packed in containers, and properly marked and labeled to designate 

 the position they were destined to occupy. The entire herbaria and all 

 other material, supplies, appliances, etc., were, in like manner, prepared 

 for transportation. The month of May and part of Jime were employed 

 in superintending the removal of the packed material from the old 

 building and the placing of the same in position in the new. In Septem- 

 ber re-installation began both in the exhibition halls and the working 

 rooms. Since that date the books of the Department Library have 

 been temporarily shelved and arranged, the phanerogamic herbariimi 

 fully organized, and most of the laboratories at least parth^ equipped 

 for work. On accoimt of alterations deemed expedient in the depart- 

 mental arrangement as originally planned, it became necessary to 

 change the installation of a large nimiber of cases previously considered 

 complete. These re-installations have consumed a large amount of 

 time and rendered re-installation far slower than was expected, setting 

 back the anticipated completion of the department at least five months. 

 Contributory to this extra work has been the elements of the unfinished 

 character of the halls and the dust raised in the work of their completion. 

 This has caused more cleaning of specimens and repainting of case 

 interiors than could have been foreseen. In Hall 28 one himdred and 

 ten case units have been placed. These are devoted entirely to all 

 those plant families the elements of which are on hand at this time. 

 The installation will comprise plant reproductions and nattiral speci- 

 mens embracing the taxonomy of about 100 families. Of these 81 

 are now installed. Hall 27, Foreign Woods: In this hall the cases 

 have not yet been shifted to their intended position. They will require 

 comparatively little interior arrangement when once set, as the 

 contents are now in place. Hall 26, North American Trees: The 



