Oct. 1902. 



Annual Report of the Director. 



99 



The majority of additions to the Zoological collections were pro- 

 cured by work in the field. The collections made by Mr. Heller are 

 of very considerable value and of great assistance in scientific work 

 in connection with the study collection. In order to extend the field 

 work in this Department and enable the Department to cover more 

 ground, Mr. W. E. Snyder was engaged to collect m certain of the 

 Northern and Western States, but he was unfortunately compelled to 

 make an early return. 



Installation, Rearrangement and Permanent Improvements. — The 



exterior of the building has received the usual attention but it is. 

 becoming evident that certain parts of the structure have reached a state 

 of decay where renewal is impossible. The steam plant was entirely 

 overhauled and a new boiler substituted for one entirely worn out. 

 The Director's office has been calsomined and a hardwood floor laid. 



As usual, installation in the Department of Anthropology was 

 pushed forward as rapidly as cases were provided, in accordance with 

 the policy determined upon three years ago. The work of repainting 

 the halls of the Department was also proceeded with. The H. N. 

 Higinbotham Korean collection occupying Hall 2 has been recased. 

 During the year the contents of Halls 4, 5 and 6 were removed, the 

 cases abandoned, the walls freshened and the work of reinstallation of 

 the collections carried on in accordance with the number of new cases 

 provided. Hall 4 is completed and the work of installing the South 

 Sea collections is about completed. No provision has yet been made 

 for the re-casing of the collections from Asia and Africa. It is 

 gratifying to note that the textile collection has been formally 

 abandoned and that therefore the lines of the Department on a. 

 strictly anthropologic basis are becoming more and more tightly 

 drawn. Owing to the increase in the collections in North American 

 Ethnology it has been necessary to find additional space. The 

 collections which formerly occupied Halls 10 and 11, therefore, com- 

 prising the material from the Eskimo, have been removed to one of 

 the halls north of the East Court. This will make possible a better 

 arrangement of the material in the southeast corner of the Museum. 

 The following collections have been installed and properly placed in 

 new cases: Apache, Navaho, Winnebago, Cheyenne, Crow and 

 Shahaptian, as well as the collection made by Mr. Hudson in 

 California, and by the McCormick Expedition among the ruins of 

 Tusayan. The large collection of Tlingit material purchased from 

 Lieut. Emmons has been temporarily installed in Hall i, awaiting 

 the re-arrangement of all the northwest coast collections when Mr. 

 Newcombe shall have finished his field work among these tribes. 



