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Philippine Islands, . S. C. Simms, . . . Luzon Ethnology. 



(R, F. Cummings Exp.) 

 Philippine Islands, . . F. C. Cole, .... Luzon Ethnology. 

 (R. F. Cumings Exp.) 



Kansas O. C. Farrington, . . Meteorites. 



r Carl E. Akele3^, . -i 



British East Africa. . . \ Vernon Shaw Kennedy, > Mammals, Birds, Etc. 

 I Edmund Heller, J 



Installation, Rearrangement and Permanent Improvement. — There is 

 more material in the Department of Anthropology awaiting instal- 

 lation than there has been at any previous time during the last 

 ten years. This is due to the fact that for three years very few 

 cases have been provided, although several collections of great magni- 

 tude have been received. This has made necessary a thorough 

 rearrangement of the stored material of the Department, for which 

 to provide even temporary shelter it has been necessary to utilize 

 discarded cases which the Department of Botany found unsuitable 

 for exhibition purposes. It is estimated that material is now in 

 storage sufficient to fill at least six exhibition halls. The installation 

 of the Northwest Coast collection has been completed, the Kwakiutl 

 collection having been installed in Halls n and 12, Salish collection 

 in Hall 13, Bella Coola and Nootka in Hall 15. 



The new installations in the Department of Botany of old and 

 additional material accomplished during the year make a very credit- 

 able showing in the natural orders represented. They are as follows: 

 Two cases have been added to the five previously representing the 

 Pine Family, one presenting the carpology of the Pinaceae, together 

 with many interesting products of the family; the other illustrating 

 the use of Pine barks in native textile products and other ways; the 

 case illustrating the utilization of the needles of the Long Leaf Pine 

 has been reorganized and augmented. The five cases representing 

 the great family of the Grasses have received expansion by five new 

 ones. One of these contains a very valuable and typical series of the 

 useful bamboos of Japan ; another has been installed witn the various 

 utilizations of the fiber grasses and paper-making grasses; another 

 exemplifies the manufacture of sugar from the sugar-cane and shows 

 different forms of native sugars from many parts of the ^wo rid ; another 

 extends the products of Indian Corn; another has been devoted to 

 the various cereal grains; and the one case formerly Jllustrating the 

 types of maize has been amplified by a second, completing this impor- 

 tant feature. The three cases formerly representing the Palm Family 



