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tion  of  a  uniform  system.  The  Division  of  Physical  Anthropology  has 
been  organized  and  placed  in  the  working  circuit  during  the  past  year, 
and  the  alterations  and  improvements  incidental  to  the  establishment 
of  this  Division  have  required  considerable  labor.  The  Assistant  Cura- 
tor in  charge  of  this  Division  has  been  provided  with  offices  in  the 
first  East  Court  gallery,  and  a  store  room  has  been  constructed  for 
him  with  sliding  trays,  etc.,  adjoining  his  office  and  laboratory.  Less 
physical  alteration  and  re-arrangement  has  been  necessary  in  the 
Department  of  Botany  than  in  any  other.  However,  the  receipt  of 
new  material  by  expedition,  gift,  exchange  and  purchase  now  requires 
for  this  Department  accommodations  that  will  be  furnished.  The 
necessary  facilities  are  being  provided  that  will  work  a  great  change 
in  this  gallery  during  the  ensuing  year.  A  part  of  this  work  will 
consist  in  completing  eight  monographic  series,  which  will  include 
the  following  interesting  displays: 
j  Rubbers  and  gums  of  the  world. 
(  Seeds  and  their  natural  appliances  for  traveling. 
f  Textile  fibres  of  the  world. 
!  Cotton:  its  growth  and  utilization  from  the  seedling  to  food, 
"j  clothing,  warfare,  medicine,  surgery,  implements,  paper,  pho- 
l     tography  and  the  arts. 
(  Notable  foods  of  the  world. 
r   |  Edible  fruits  and  their  products. 
Habit  plants  and  their  products. 
■  Opium,  Tobacco,  Cocaine,  Betel  Nut,  Tea,  Coffee,  Mate,  etc., 
4'  '      etc.,   Vegetable  poisons,  Curare  Woorare,  Hellebore,  Pyre- 
thrum,  etc. 
Eight  special  herbarium  cases  have  been  provided  and  placed  in 
the  laboratory  of  this  Department,  in  which  is  being  gathered  a 
reference  herbarium  about  the  nucleus  formed  by  the  Yucatan 
material  obtained  by  expedition.  The  Department  of  Geology 
exhibits  very  little  physical  change  during  the  year,  although  plans 
are  being  executed  that  will  materially  improve  Halls  66  and  67. 
The  paleontological  collection  has  been  largely  re-arranged  and 
re-mounted,  and  now  follows  more  nearly  the  stratigraphical  order  of 
occurrence.  From  the  lithological  collection,  most  of  the  polishe'd 
slabs  have  been  transferred  to  the  Economic  Division,  and  their  places 
filled  by  specimens  illustrating  the  petrology  of  Manhattan  Island  and 
the  Green  Mountains  of  Massachusetts.  The  metallic  meteorites  have 
been  coated  with  varnish,  and  several  of  the  relief  maps  have  been 
retouched.  In  the  Economic  Division,  a  number  of  the  halls  have 
been  re-installed,  but  the  old  cases  and  bases  have  been  utilized  in 
