Oct. igo2. Annual Report of the Director. 



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fodder and soap. One-half case of palmetto illustrating brush 

 manufacture. One case of saw palmetto illustrating brush and fiber 

 manufacture. 



URTICACE^; 



One-half case of hemp illustrating the utilization of the fiber, the 

 drug hashish, the seed and the oil. 



LINAGE^: 



Seven cases illustrating flax, old domestic implements, home- 

 spun linen, machine linen, machine thread, and linseed oil extraction. 



PINACEiE: 



Five cases illustrating the turpentine industry, the manufacture 

 of textiles from the needles of the Georgia pine, indurated fiber ware, 

 and the manufacture of paper from wood. 



STERCULIACE^: 



One-half case illustrating cocoa and chocolate. 



LEGUMINOS^: 



Three cases illustrating various products of this large family: 

 Indigo, licorice, peanuts, beans, peas, lentils, lupines, tamarinds, 

 gums, cassia, tonka beans, fibers, tanning substances, etc. 



AMARYLLiDACE^: (Plates XVIII and XIX.) 



One case illustrating the utilization of the Mexican Hemp plant, 

 the Century plant, the Pulque plant and the Ixtle of Mexico. 



GUMS AND RUBBERS: 



Two cases illustrating the various products of this nature with a 

 special view to the instruction of pharmacological students. 



PECULIAR PLANT FOODS: 



One case containing temporarily, various odd and interesting 

 human foods of peculiar origin, which will later go into the general 

 systematic arrangement: Agar Agar, Vegetable Cheese, Mandioc 

 Balls, Mowha Flowers, Jamaica Flowers, Sesame Cakes, Screw Beans, 

 Prickly Pears, Yucca Bread, etc. 



In the Department of Geology, the most important work per- 

 formed in installation and rearrangement has been that of a complete 

 reorganization of the paleontological collections. These have been 

 installed in entirely new cases and now occupy five halls instead of 

 three, as formerly. These halls, before occupation, were thoroughly 

 renovated and repainted. For containing the collections thirty-two 



