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war for lack of transportation. These have been coming in steadily, 

 but still further efforts will have to be made to secure the numbers 

 that were issued in limited editions. Exchanges were received from six 

 hundred and forty-two institutions and individuals. Publications from 

 all sources reached a total of 3,647 books and pamphlets, a considerable 

 increase over the receipts of any of the past four years. The books 

 and pamphlets total 77,471. Purchases of books and periodicals were 

 limited for the most part to the immediate needs of the staff. The cost 

 of binding is gradually being lowered and two hundred and seventy 

 books were bound. There have been written and inserted in the cat- 

 alogues 11,600 cards. Early in the year the books of the general 

 library were cleaned, restored to their classification and shelved in 

 rooms at the southeast end of the building. Space has now been per- 

 manently assigned for the library on the third floor. 



Departmental Cataloguing. Inventorying and Labeling. — During the year the 

 work of cataloguing in the Department of Anthropology has progressed 

 as the new accessions were acquired. The total number of cata- 

 logue cards prepared amounts to 983, which includes the Japanese 

 Surimono presented by Miss Helen C. Gunsaulus. These cards are 

 distributed over the single divisions as follows : North American 

 Ethnology 468 ; Southwest, Mexican and South American Archaeology 

 21; Melanesian and African Ethnology 99; and Ethnology of China, 

 India and Japan 395, and have been entered in the inventory 

 books of the Department which now number 38. The number of 

 annual accessions amounts to thirty-nine, twenty-eight of which have 

 been entered. The total number of catalogue cards entered from the 

 opening of the first volume amounts to 156,177. The Department 

 has been supplied with a total of 4,984 printed labels. These are dis- 

 tributed over the divisions- as follows: Stanley Field Hall, 315; 

 Eskimo, Northwest Coast, etc., 854; Plains Indians, 1331 ; Indians 

 of California, 96; South America, 1,038; Melanesia, 409; China, 

 220; Tibet, 6; Korea, 215; Formosa, 77; Japan, 227; India, 100; 

 and Higinbotham hall, 96. A total of 458 label cards was added to the 

 label file and 156 prints were placed in the photographic albums. 



All newly accessioned specimens in the Department of Botany 

 have been catalogued as fast as organized. A total of 14,058 entries 

 has been made in the fifty-eight catalogue volumes, bringing the 

 total number of catalogued specimens up to 496,367. Augmentation 

 of the various card indexes during the past year has been necessarily 

 slight, due to the preponderance of other work. Additional cards 

 have been inserted as follows : 



