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transferred to the new building, leaving ample room for the display 
of the palaeontological collections. 
Rev. Dr. L. T. Chamberlain has generously provided a second 
line case for the Lea Collection of Eocene Fossils, and has employed 
Prof. G. D. Harris during the year to make a careful study of the 
original Lea type collection, with the result that the whole is now 
entirely rearranged on specially printed labels, and all the type 
specimens carefully designated. 
Mr. C. W. Johnson has been engaged, also by the Rev. Dr. 
Chamberlain, on another expedition to the Eocene formation in 
Louisiana and Texas in the interest of the Lea Collection, and has 
brought back a valuable series of additions. Dr. Chamberlain has 
also had a handsome wainscoting erected in the vestibule of the new 
building, above which are to be placed the slabs of fossil .foot-prints 
presented by the late Dr. Isaac Lea. 
Apart from the preparation and arrangement of the accessions, the 
work in the museum during the year has been mainly confined to 
the arranging and cataloguing of the departments of Ethnology, 
Ornithology and Mineralogy. 
In the first department, the entire collection of human crania has 
been consistently numbered and carefully checked off in the printed 
catalogue of the Morton Collection, a large amount of uucatalogued 
material systematically entered, and the whole copied into the new 
catalogue and brought up to date. 
In the ornithological collection, over 4,000 specimens have been 
worked over on the plans previously outlined, and many additional 
specimens mounted. All the types have been unmounted and placed 
in air-tight cases. For this purpose, one large additional tin case 
has been provided, and twenty large packing cases have been pro¬ 
cured for the temporary storage of duplicate specimens of large water 
birds. Fuller particulars in this department are furnished in the 
report of the Ornithological Section. 
In cataloguing the minerals great progress has been made, nearly 
4,000 specimens have been entered in the catalogue, and a large 
portion of the remainder arranged for cataloguing. 
In the department of mollusca, a large amount of new material 
which had accumulated has been mounted, catalogued and placed 
in the museum, while many valuable accessions have been received 
