02. Annual Ri me Dir r. 93 



of the Pacific have been thoroughly examined and compan d with the 

 collector's original list and arc now in satisfactory condition. The 

 immense amount of labor involved in this cataloguing has l< tt but 

 little time for the preparation ol printed labels, but all :i 

 acquired material placed upon exhibition has at least been tem- 

 porarily labeled. 



It is highly gratifying to Ik- able to report that the Department 

 ol Ornithology has completed tin- inventory ol the study collection 

 which approximates 27,000 specimens. A card catalogue has been 

 prepared showing the number ot specimens in each spi • ies, from 

 whence obtained, the sex, month ami locality in which they 

 taken and th and tray in which they may be found. Five 



hundred anil eighty-four specimens, a part ot the donation ot the 

 United Stat, s ot Colombia in 1893, have been identified, properly 

 labeled, and entered on the ion records. The bird skins 



obtained by Mr. I er in Mexico to the numbei ol . soo have 



also been labeled, accessioned and incorporated in the stud\ collection. 



In the Department of Zoology the inventory books have been 

 kept up and the records an in a satisfactory condition. Over 4,500 

 printed labels, describing the shell collection, have been substituted 

 Id the written ones and about 500 new mounts have been made. 

 I < ■ins of protozoa, sponges, corals and staf-fishes have also 



I"  1  labeled. 



The following table shows m detail the year's work in the 

 um on catalogues and inventories: 



I lEPAB 1 Ml vc 



Anthropi 

 Botany, 



Library, 



< >rn it 



Phi * igraphy, 



Zoology, 



Accessions. — Practically all ot the accessions in the Department 



of Anthropology for the year have fallen within the division of 



Ethnology. If two purchases, both of considerable interest, are 



excluded, all collections have been derived from field expeditions, 



equently they are ot unusual interest and ot great scientific 



The Curator made three trips to Oklahoma and one to 



Ni Mexico and on these occasions was able t < > obtain additional 



rial which strengthened in a notable manner thi lions 



idy made from the Pawnee, Osag< . Arapaho, Ponca and Oto tribes 



