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.r is complete, while heavy o material in 



cr herbaria have been r. 31.679 specimens have boon 



54 record books ot the department, of which 13.95- 

 irum ihc University of Chicago herbarium and 6.000 from th 

 >n. The Geographic It 

 .1 le to date. The car<i iti'iM<>> ■•, un- 'iijiUk 



h. ..w. ..;. . . vonomic plant names have multiplied. 1.250 t..;.-- 

 h.ivinc horn written and or>;anizod into ihr tt Sco n w in the cases. 

 acns in the Department of Ci cd during th< 



year have been inventoried and catalogued, as received, the number 

 of entries for the year being 4,103 and the total number on the Dc 

 partmcnt l>ooks 103,081. Sixty cards have been added to thr 

 le of vertebrate fossils and a complete card catalogue of ihr 

 Uc^'urimcnt library has been made. This numl>ers to date 1,816 

 cards. A considerable number of temporary written la)>els have 

 been prepared and placed in the collections to serve irifil printed 

 ortr^ rnn be provided. About 400 such lal>els were pr- , for the 



I ns in Halls 65 and 66, and about 300 for the collections in 



Hall 7a. Some of the latter are more or less descriptive. Sixty-two 

 printed labels have been prepared and distributetl in the gem collec- 

 tion in Higinix)tham Hall, completing the lal>elling of this collection, 

 and 271 p. :cal lat^els. some of them descriptive, have been 



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nic coin v... 



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and labelmg of S| • s in the Department of 



y. d and at a rate exceeding that of the increase 01 



the ^ and encourages the belief that this work, which ha^^ 



•id on it of sudden large ms in the past, will 



' routine work. Dunng the year, about 8,00c 



 . inclu  m O' 



,2 m ' ' ' y 'ji inc spetiar 



m the 

 s ^. Labels for < :nens have 



