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  3. What progress has been made in caring for the collections in your custody, i.e., in their preservation and installation?
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  The collection of boats has been overhauled and a number of models repaired. The full-sized boats--kaiaks, dug-outs, etc.--have been rearranged upon the ceiling of the hall to a height great enough to admit an additional amount of light.
  Two new cases have been erected in the east hall and in them the collection illustrating the electrical industries and the collection illustrating methods of land transportation, which was received at the close of the Atlanta Exposition, have been installed.
  The textile collection, which has been scattered for a number of years, has been brought together with a view to revising it and re-installing such portions as may be deemed advisable.
  Very little has been done in the collection of animal products, which was not put under the care of the Curator until some weeks after the death of Mr. R. Edward Earll, which occurred in March last.