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IN EAST PAVILION. 
Section of Transportation. 
A. Marine Transportation: Hall 37. 
B. Human Burthen-Bearers: Hall 38. 
C. Pack Animals: Hall 39. 
D. Land Vehicles: Halls 40 and 55. 
E. Steamboat: Hall 54. 
F. Street (or Tram) Cars: Hall 54. 
The large objects in the North, East, and West Courts have 
been installed by and are assigned to the care of the Director of 
this Department. 
HALL 22 AND ALCOVE 96. 
SECTION OF ANIMAL INDUSTRIES. 
In this Section will be found a valuable collection of tanned 
skins and leathers, exhibited at the Columbian Exposition in the 
United States Government Building by Tiffany & Co., which the 
Museum has recently acquired. This firm began to make this 
collection in 1876, in order to acquaint themselves with the indus- 
trial possibilities of using the skins of fishes, reptiles, birds, and 
rare mammals. It was the forming of this collection that has led 
to the introduction of the leathers made from the frog, alligator, 
snake, and other reptiles. Among the four hundred examples 
will be found leathers of the elephant, lion, camel, giraffe, mon- 
key, cat, dog, crocodile, lizard, frog, shark, wolf-fish, etc., collected 
from Australia to Alaska. 
Here also will be found an extensive collection of foot-wear 
and many other interesting objects, given to the Museum by the 
governments of Russia and Turkey, including an attractive col- 
lection of leather articles from Jerusalem. Also a fine collection 
of skins from the Argentine Republic. 
Interesting models illustrating the advanced methods adopted 
for the slaughtering and shipping of cattle, etc., employed in a 
