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lection, and his collections from the Florida Indian mounds and a 
series of aboriginal pottery specimens from the mounds of Ohio and 
Tennessee have been arranged in them. A large clay altar from 
Ohio has been mounted in a special case, and several maps and 
photographs, illustrating the collection, have been placed upon the 
walls. 
The Professor of Ethnology and Archaeology having been un¬ 
able to devote any time to the arrangement of the collection in his 
department, Professor Putnam, of the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, 
has been engaged to classify and label the Mexican archaeological 
specimens, and has already completed a portion of the work. Much 
additional archaeological material has been transferred during the 
year to the new building, three additional cases and six large 
tables being provided for its reception. 
A boiler has been erected in the engine-house and the heating 
plant of the new building is thus rendered practically complete. 
The west end of the main floor of the old museum has been 
separated by a partition of glass and woodwork, thus forming a com¬ 
modious apartment which will soon be occupied by the Entomo¬ 
logical Section. New radiators have been provided for heating the 
same, while radiators have also been placed in the rooms formerly 
occupied by the Wm. S. Vaux Collections, east of the library gallery. 
Early in the year the entire collection of bird skins was removed 
from the cramped quarters in the library and cellar and placed in 
the southeast room, formerly devoted to the Wm. S. Vaux Collections, 
which now forms an excellent study room for those engaged in ornitho¬ 
logical investigation, while the adjoining room has been used as a gen¬ 
eral work room for the taxidermist and others engaged in the prepara¬ 
tion of specimens. The northeast room on the same floor has been 
devoted to the use of the artists and transient workers. The basement 
of the new building has also been fitted up for the use of the taxi¬ 
dermist, and all the larger work has been done there. The transfer 
of the west end of the main floor of the old museum to the Entomo¬ 
logical Section has necessitated considerable rearrangement of cases, 
and the removal of the osteological collections to the second floor of 
the new building, while the mammal and fossil cases are necessarily 
much crowded. This condition is, however, only temporary, and as 
soon as cases can be provided the entire series of mammals will be 
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