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do in their stock of material and genius of their directors there is no one classific concept in which all should be arranged. The best results are reached in those collections where the material is servant to a master mind.

The collections of the year to which special attention should be called are the following:--

Mr. Romyn Hitchcock, returning from Japan, after a ten years sojourn, has enriched the ethnographic series with many most desirable specimens, gathered on the spot with the view of illustrating the life of the people. Costumes were secured which truly represent Japanese common life. The full contents of a kitchen, the apparatus of characteristics crafts,, weights and measures, furniture, and a large series connected with Japanese religion help to illustrate the true Japanese life. Mr. Hitchcock spent much time among the Ainos, utilizing his talent as an artist to add value to his material secured by means of many pictures. 

This Aino material, fully labeled is installed together in the Museum. A life sized figure of a man in costume, models of the house, granary, bear cage and sacred hedge in miniature, specimens of Aino handicraft and a