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The following is a list of the expeditions : 



Locality- 



Collector 



Material 





R. L. Becker 



Mammals and Birds. 



Brazil, Peru and Venezuela 



M. P. Anderson 



Mammals and Birds. 



Monterey, California 



. W. Heim 



Fishes. 



Baird, California 



. W. Heim 



Fishes. 



Alaska, Seward Peninsiiki . 



J. Friesser 



Mammals. 





. H. H. Smith 



North American Forestry. 





. C. L. Owen 



Ethnological Material. 



Melanesia 



A. B. Lewis 



Ethnological Material. 





. E. S. Riggs . 



Vertebrate Fossils. 



Michigan 



. A. W. Slocom 



Invertebrate Fossils. 





0. C. Farrington 



Meteorites. 



British East Africa . 



. B. Altscheler 



Mammals and Birds. 



[Installation, rearrangement, [and Permanent Improvement.— The capacity 

 of the staff and the assistants in the Department of Anthropology 

 has been fully tested this year, for besides the routine work an ex- 

 traordinary amount of new work has been performed. Over 150 new 

 cases have been placed on permanent exhibition, practically all of 

 them fully and completely labeled. In addition to these, 15 standard 

 cases installed in recent years have been rearranged, for such rearrange- 

 ment seemed necessary on account of the acquisition of new material. 

 More than 250 boxes, many of them of huge dimensions, have been 

 unpacked and the contents assorted into temporary storage cases. 

 All of this has required an extensive rearrangement and readjustment, 

 but the time has now come when there is practically no room, outside 

 the three small halls still reserved for Chinese and Tibetan material, 

 for the display of new material except at the expense of material already 

 installed. Borneo collections were installed in 9 cases as follows : 4 Iban, 

 2 Malay, i Milanan, 2 Murut, i Kayan, and i Klemantan. These, 

 together with 2 cases of Andaman Island material and one of Nicobar 

 installed this year, and a case of Malay Peninsula material representing 

 the primitive culture of the Semang and Sakai, have been placed in Hall 

 8 where they completely fill up the aisles and block the cases of prehis- 

 toric pottery from the Southwest. That hall now, though one of the 

 most prominently placed halls in the Department, is merely a confused 

 storage hall. Practically the entire Javanese collection has been rein- 

 stalled, which was necessary because most of it was installed in old and 

 inadequate cases. This collection now occupies Hall 54. To provide 

 adequate space in the East Annex for the completion of the Philippine 

 collections and the rapidly expanding Chinese and Tibetan collections, 

 other changes than those already noted were necessary. First, all the 

 Melanesian material, except the large canoes suspended from the ceiling 



