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ogy of America was well set forth, with attractive collections from the North-west Coast. All these efforts were successful in their way and it is now designed to follow them up with a comprehensive display which will enable the spectator to see the Continent as it appeared to the first explorers. At the same time the Exposition will furnish an appropriate culmination of a series of investigations which have been prosecuted for a century. Not that these investigations were pursued for the purpose of bringing them together in an encyclopaedic work or display, but the World's Exposition furnishes the happy occasion of crowning the distinguished scholars who have for a hundred years been doing their best to make a great historic and ethnographic exhibit possible. 

    During the year the material gathered from various parts of the earth without reference to the elucidation of any special art, have been collected and arranged in a series of courts after the manner of the European Museums. This has been only partially carried out on account of the great lack of space. 

    At the close of the year 1890-1891 the department became so crowded in space that it was deemed necessary