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3.  WHAT PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE IN CARING FOR THE COLLECTIONS UNDER YOUR CUSTODY, i. e., IN THEIR PRESERVATION AND INSTALLATION?

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Two additional store rooms have been fitted with shelves during the past year.  One, in the south tower, [[strikethrough]]which[[/strikethrough]] has been utilized for the reception of North American pottery, mostly fragmentary, but still useful for study and exchanges.  The other, in the south-west tower, [[strikethrough]]which[[/strikethrough]] has been filled with pottery from Central and South America, consisting principally of entire vessels.

All of the Mexican, and part of the Nicaraguan and Costa Rican collections were placed on exhibition, [[strikethrough]]which[[/strikethrough]] necessitat[[strikethrough]]ed[[/strikethrough]] ^[[ing]] a rearrangement of the cases already devoted ^[[to objects from]] [[strikethrough]]to[[/strikethrough]] these countries.

As many as possible of the entire vessels from mound explorations in the United States were also placed on exhibition, and the remainder stored on shelves in the rear of the long wall case at the east end of the hall.  All of this material was received from the Museum building.

In addition, there [[strikethrough]]was[[/strikethrough]] ^[[were]] packed and sent to storage, seventy-one boxes containing stone implements, fragments of pottery, human bones, etc.  These were part of the collections received from the Bureau of Ethnology and stored on the floor of Anthropological Hall.  I am happy to state that the aisles and passage-ways are now entirely clear.