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printed on the mats of each sheet. The process of Japanese wood- 

 engraving and color-printing is illustrated in comparative view with 

 the analogous processes of China and Tibet in a case installed in Hall 

 44. Many specimens of ancient Japanese textiles and books illustrat- 

 ing costimies and designs are on exhibition in the same Hall. Besides 

 a large amount of work which the Section of Photography normally 

 does for this Department an especially large number of photographs 

 have been prepared for Dr. Laufer to illustrate pubhcations or for 

 exhibition purposes. It is gratifying that the collection has already 

 attracted the attention of students from abroad and has been studied 

 by several, among whom are Dr. William Cohn and Dr. Mimsterberg 

 of Berlin, the Museum Commission sent by the City of Munich, 

 and Mr. Lawrence Binyon of the British Museum. American students 

 interested in the East and engaged in Museum work or intending 

 to pursue researches in the Orient, have availed themselves of the 

 opportunities offered by the Museum collection,— e. g., Mr. Curtis 

 and Dr. Denmar Rose of the Boston Fine Arts Museum; Mr. Crane^ 

 Trustee of the Newark Museum; Miss K. Ball, Superintendent of 

 Art Education of San Francisco; Mr. Whiting, Director of the Art 

 Museum of Indianapolis; President Wheeler of California University; 

 Dr. Barrett of the Public Museum of Milwaukee; Dr. Carus, 

 Editor of the Monist and the Open Court, and numerous collectors. 

 No new cases have been added to the Department of Botany though 

 many of the old installations have been rearranged, augmented, and 

 preparations made for the rapid installation of new cases now under 

 construction. The case devoted to the Orange Family has been re- 

 installed through the addition of reproduced leafy branches with one 

 or more ripe fruits of the Pumelo or Shaddock {Citrus decumana) and 

 a transverse section of the fruit ; the Mandarin orange and the Tangierine 

 (C. nohilis) ; the usual and the fingered Citron (C. medico) with sections 

 of each; the rough Lemon (C. limonum) of the tropics; the Navel 

 Orange (C. aurantium); the sweet and the sour Lime (C. Limetta), 

 leaving only the Bergamot wanting to complete the representation 

 of this family. The Custard Apple family has received the addition of 

 a leafy branch with ripe fruit of the Bullock's Heart or Custard Apple 

 (Anona reticulata) ; the Bamboos a reproduction of a full ripe and sprout- 

 ing seed, a rarity, as the bamboos seldom perfect fruit. The botanical 

 characters of the Buckwheat family are now represented by a complete, 

 natural size, branch of the Sea Grape (Coccoloba uvijera) in full leaf, 

 flower and fruit. The first case of the three devoted to the Madder 

 family now contains a full size branch of the Coffee shrub in full flower 

 and fruit as well as an enlarged flower showing its characters ; a natural 



