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graphic distribution of the objects [[strikethrough]]c[[/strikethrough]] ^[[f]]rom the Coasts of North and South America have been arranged consecutively in the wall-cases around the hall, commencing near the north-east corner with the West Indian Islands and proceeding westwards on the north side in the following order:- Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Chiriqui, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Chili to Patagonia in the south-west corner. On the south side is represented Alaska and Greenland, Washington, Oregon, California and Lower California. The eastern end of the hall is occupied by foreign collections, principally my own from Western Europe and others of the Museum. The largest case on the south side, east of the door, has been consecrated to the display of mummies, of which we have specimens from Egypt, Chili and Peru, Mexico, Alaska, and a single specimen from a cavern in Kentucky.

The collections from the United States in the western end of the hall have been distributed geographically, but those in the eastern end, and the Synoptical display, have not yet been completed.

The proposed re-arrangement looks to the changing of the heaters in the entire hall, to be replaced by lower ones which shall not interfere with the window-sills. The heavy shelves formerly in the windows are being torn out and the stone idols which formerly occupied them are being placed on the top of the wall-cases at either end and sides of the room, the tallest of them to be nearest the ends. Large vases serve the purpose at once of display and decoration by being placed on the top at either end of the tall alcove cases. The mound pottery received from the Museum comprises 438 specimens. They have been placed on the top shelves of the alcove cases assigned to the various states to which they belong. This fills about one-half of the space which