Viewing page 4 of 12

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

[[typewritten]]
4. State what progress has been made in administering upon the collections under your charge.
[[/typewritten]]

[[handwritten]]
This has perhaps been sufficiently answered under the preceding head. It should be remarked here that, on account of the death of the Assistant Secretary, the Curator's time from Sept 6th was almost exclusively occupied by the general executive work of the Museum. For this reason ^[[no]] new lines of work could be taken up. The Department was entirely without a regular force at times, and has had no officer higher than an Aid regularly on duty during the year. About all that it has been possible to accomplish under these adverse circumstances, has been to preserve the collections intact and to prevent the routine work from falling behind.

Early in the calendar year 1897 preparations were begun for an exhibit at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition at Nashville. The exhibit as finally installed consisted of a group of Proboscis Monkeys, a group of Gibbous, and two unit cases of Mounted specimens of Lemurs.
[[/handwritten]]