Oct. 1902. 



Annual Report of the Director. 



105 



77, these halls together with Hall 68 having been first entirely 

 renovated and repainted. A shelf with iron railing was built entirely 

 around the walls of the halls to provide a means of supporting and 

 exhibiting the maps. In addition twenty iron easels made after 

 designs by the Curator, were provided for the exhibition of maps in 

 the floor space. Four large tables were also provided for displaying 

 small relief maps. In drawers in these tables have been filed the 

 unmounted maps to the number of several hundred. These are now 

 arranged alphabetically and in labeled covers. A total of sixty-two 

 relief maps, large and small, besides globes and wall maps is now 

 displayed in these two halls and the collection is one of the largest of 

 its kind to be found on exhibition in any Museum. The collection of 

 clays, sands and fictile material which formerly occupied Hall 77 was 

 moved to Hall 68, this hall being in turn vacated by consolidating 

 the collection of building stones with that of marbles in Hall 67. 

 Two new cases were added to accommodate an additional series of 

 clays presented by Mr. J. J. Moroney. Some work in reorganizing 

 the clay collection has been done, the principal undertaking being to 

 exhibit in connection with each specimen of clay, briquettes which 

 show the clay before and after burning. When completed this 

 collection will be of great economic interest and value. 



The installation of Hall 24, containing the protozoa, sponges and 

 coral collections, has been almost completed. The specimens have 

 been placed in new cases specially built for their display to advantage, 

 not only showing the specimens in the best possible Avay, but effecting 

 a great economy of space, the collection, as a matter of fact, now 

 occupying about one-half the space it formerly did. 



Photography, Illustration and Printing. — The development of 

 these two divisions continues and their importance as factors in 

 Museum work cannot be questioned. The addition of a new Gordon 

 press and a large amount of type has greatly increased the usefulness 

 of the Division of Printing. The number of label forms and other 

 impressions turned out by the printer is shown in the following 

 table: 



Labels, 



Other 

 Impressions. 



Anthropology, 



Botany, 



Geology, 



Zoology, 



2,295 

 1,166 

 5,267 

 2,991 



13,600 

 10,550 



Director's Office, 

 Library, . 



29.375 

 36,762 

 10,370 



