Jan., 1912. Annual Report of the Director. hi 



kept intact. The current work of classifying, labeling, accessioning 

 and cataloguing the pt:blications as they were received has continued 

 without interruption. There have been written and added to the cata- 

 logue 14,014 cards. Monthly installments of The John Crerar Library 

 Catalogue cards have been received and filed. Two additional units 

 of the metal card cabinets were purchased to accommodate the growth 

 of the catalogue. There have been received from the Newberry Li- 

 brary Bindery 879 periodicals and publications. The office of the 

 Library has been thoroughly cleaned and redecorated and the stack 

 room thoroughly dusted. Advantage was taken of the opportunity to 

 borrow from the Department of Geology, for temporary use, one of 

 the large exhibition cases. This was placed in the stack room and 

 filled with books seldom used. This disposition temporarily relieves 

 the crowded condition of the shelves in the stack room. The physical 

 condition of the stack room and the Departmental Libraries cannot 

 be improved in the present building. The Library, depending as it 

 must to a large extent upon the larger libraries of the city for many 

 of the rare and expensive books, takes pleasure again in acknowledging 

 the courtesies extended bv these institutions,^ 



Departmental Cataloguing, inventorying, Akfl; J-ab'eling. — The Depart- 

 ment of Anthropology reports that 3,250 ca^alQgue cajds were written 

 and entered in the departmental inventory, which now number 34 

 volumes. The most important collections catalogued and recorded 

 have been those made by the late Dr. William Jones and Mr. F. C. 

 Cole in the Philippines; the Alfred R. Brown collection from 

 Andaman and Nicobar Islands; Australian material from the Uni- 

 versity of Melbourne; material from Congo and Soudan, collected by 

 Mr. E. E. Ayer, and Salish Indian material presented by Mr. Homer 

 E. Sargent. Three thousand catalogue cards, forming a small portion 

 of the Mrs. T. B. Blackstone Chinese and Tibetan collection, have 

 been prepared by Dr. Berthold Laufer, but remain unentered in the 

 departmental inventory, awaiting the completion of the cataloguing 

 of the collections. The efficiency of the records of the Department 

 has been maintained and the classified card catalogue of tribes, as 

 well as an alphabetical record of same, has been continued. It is 

 very gratifying to report that labels of black card with aluminum 

 ink have been printed and placed upon iinproved wooden label holders 

 of varying slants in 44 cases, containing ethnological material from 

 California, and that in thirty-five exhibition cases devoted to the 

 ethnology of the Hopi Indians the old and faded buff labels are being 

 rapidly replaced with revised and rewritten black card labels. The 

 information on the old buff printed labels accompanying the Tlingit 



