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the Museum. The tasks to which they have been assigned are 

 important ones, but of a character which would have required indefi- 

 nite postponement if this additional personnel had not been avail- 

 able, because the regular staff of the Museum was fully occupied 

 in still more important work. 



The larger part of the relief workers has been assigned to the 

 Museum by the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission, and paid 

 through that agency. Many others, however, were assigned and 

 paid by the Civil Works Service, Civil Works Administration, and 

 Public Works of Art Commission, during the periods in which those 

 federal government agencies were in operation. When the federal 

 agencies were discontinued after the first quarter of 1934, their work 

 was taken over by the state commission, which provided the Museum 

 with assignees throughout the year. 



The Museum in 1934 had as many as 86 relief workers assigned 

 to it during a single period; the lowest number at any one time was 

 eight; and the average number through the year was 40. The total 

 number of working hours of the assignees to the Museum, in the 

 aggregate, was 43,172; the average number of working hours per 

 week was 830. 



In the Department of Anthropology the work done by relief 

 assignees included the mounting and captioning of some 6,000 

 photographs; mounting on linen of more than 800 ancient Peruvian 

 fabrics; the washing and numbering of about 9,000 potsherds, and 

 the classifying and mounting of 4,000 of them; and a great amount 

 of typing, indexing, preparing of catalogue cards, and other clerical 

 work. 



In the Department of Botany relief workers have made 35,000 

 packets for plant specimens; mounted approximately 60,000 herba- 

 rium specimens of plants; prepared 35,000 index cards; made several 

 thousand leaves in the Plant Reproduction Laboratories; and 

 performed a large amount of work on the wood collections, in the 

 preparation of dioramas, on drawings and lettering, on records, and 

 in tjTDing and clerical work of various kinds. 



The relief workers assigned to the Department of Geology pre- 

 pared more than 13,500 catalogue cards on the typewriter; numbered 

 1,600 specimens; copied extensive manuscripts; mounted a number 

 of fossils; and in the case of some especially qualified workers were 

 even able to undertake certain research projects. 



Work done by relief assignees in the Department of Zoology 

 comprises the preparation of 15,000 index cards, labels and other 



