on the reserved days was agreed to by the authorities. The plan 
was put in operation on the first day of last August, but the 
receipts for the last five months of the year are not a fair 
criterion of the result to be expected in the future. 
Lumholtz Expedition. — The investigations carried on by 
Dr. Carl Lumholtz in Northern Mexico were continued during 
the year. The judgment of the highest authorities in this 
country warrant the statement that the results thus far achieved 
are of great scientific interest and value. 
Emmons Alaskan Collection. — The second collection 
gathered by Lieut. George T. Emmons, U. S. Navy, and which 
was incorporated in the Federal Government's Exhibit at Chicago, 
has been brought to the Museum for temporary display and 
inspection by our friends, and it is hoped that the Museum may 
acquire it. It contains a much wider range of objects than the 
first collection purchased for the Museum in 1888, and numbers 
2900 pieces. 
With the Emmons Collections from Alaska, the Bishop Collec- 
tion from British Columbia, the archaeological material bought of 
James Terry, and the Collections made by Dr. Lumholtz in 
Mexico and by Dr. Bandelier in Peru, the Museum contains 
material very fully representing the ethnology and archaeology of 
the Pacific Coast. The territory yet uncovered will soon, I hope, 
be visited by explorers in the interest of the Museum. 
Lectures. — The joint agreement with Columbia College has 
been continued, whereby several courses of lectures were deliv- 
ered, principally on subjects relating to the collections. Large 
audiences have been present on each occasion, and in many in- 
stances even standing room has not been available. Although 
these lectures were a radical innovation, no question can be raised 
as to their great value. They have come to be a most valuable 
auxiliary in bringing the collections before a larger class of the 
people, and have provided the means of broadening the educa- 
tional influence of the Museum. Much o£ the value of the col- 
lections depends upon the wide use made of the material, and by 
