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(4) Owing to the pressure of various duties during the three months that I have been in charge of the technological collections no attempt has been made to assume control of those collections which were formerly administered by other curators except in the section Marine Architecture. A number of important objects in that collection having been withdrawn by the Commission of Fish and Fisheries for exhibition at Atlanta, the proposed rearrangement of the cases in Boat hall will be deferred until their return.

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