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The work of keeping up such a series of cards is infinitely slight,, 

 while the status of the collections is thereby positively known, and 

 ready reference to all collectors and localities represented in. the col- 

 lections is at the hand of any one desiring to use the material. As to 

 the time required to keep such systematic records no details can be 

 given, but the fact that over 50,000 specimens have been mounted 

 and distributed, and over 80,000 recorded, by two persons in five 

 years, while attending to the various duties of this department, will 

 serve to give some idea of this work. " 



The year's work in the Museum on catalogues and inventorying 

 is shown in detail as follows : 



Department. 

 Anthropology, . 

 Botany, . . . 

 Geology, . . . 

 Library, . 

 Ornithology, . 

 Photography, 

 Zoology, . 



Accessions.— Very important accessions have been received by 

 the Museum during the year. The most notable in the Department 

 of Anthropology were the Perrine collection, from the quarry sites of 

 Union County, Illinois, containing many of the finest chipped and 

 polished stone implements ever brought together; a collection of 

 over 1,000 objects from prehistoric graves in Chile, presented by Mr. 

 Cyrus H. McCormick; a large collection from the Swiss Lake dwell- 

 ings, consisting of a fine series of ornaments, utensils, bronze, bones, 

 stones, etc., presented by Vice-President Ryerson ; over 3,000 objects 

 illustrating the archaeology and ethnology of the Hopi, being the 

 result of the four Stanley McCormick expeditions ; and a collection 

 of 2,000 ethnological specimens from various tribes in the western 

 states, acquired by the Museum expeditions. The purchase of the 

 Patterson herbarium containing 30,000 specimens of North American 

 plants was a most noteworthy contribution to the Department of 

 Botany. A series of selected duplicates containing 1,018 specimens, 

 representing the collections of Miss Eastwood in California and 

 Colorado, was also a highly prized addition. The sets of plants 

 newly collected by Messrs. Clute, Heller, Poland, Pringle and Rick- 

 secker were also purchased. Most of the accessions in the Depart- 

 ment of Zoology were secured by the Museum's collector in the field. 

 A Canon Diablo meteorite, weighing 76 pounds, from the Edward E. 



