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in boxes. There have been written and inserted in the various catalogues 

 22,570 cards. 



Departmental Cataloguing, Inventorying and Labeling. — In no previous 

 year in the history of the Department of Anthropology have so many 

 cases been installed with their full complement of labels. At least 

 150 cases have been fully labeled. It is confidently believed that no 

 more adequate labeling could have been accomplished than that 

 which now prevails throughout the Chinese and Philippine collections 

 recently installed. For the Chinese collection alone over 2,600 labels 

 have been printed. There have been entered in the inventory books of 

 the Department nearly 3,000 catalogue cards, which were about equally 

 divided between the Blackstone Chinese Collection and the Field South 

 Pacific Islands Collection. The Chinese archaeological collection has 

 been completely catalogued and the cataloguing of the Tibetan material 

 is well advanced. Assistant Curator Lewis has written approximately 

 3,000 catalogue cards of the South Pacific Islands collections, which are 

 ready to be entered in the inventory books. These have not yet been 

 turned over to the Cataloguer, but are retained for further reference in 

 connection with the installation of the material which they chronicle. 



The cataloguing of the specimens of all accessions received during 

 the year in the Department of Botany is complete to date, and 31,624 

 sheets of the larger accessions of previous years have also been cata- 

 logued. All new installations have received their labels so far as they 

 have been secured from the printer. Copy has been written for 1,033 

 labels, of which 290 are still in the hands of the printer. 



The principal work of cataloguing performed in the Department of 

 Geology was that of the Ward-Coonley meteorite collection. All of 

 this collection to the number of 1,661 specimens has been carefully 

 catalogued. All other material received during the year has likewise 

 been fully catalogued. The material so catalogued includes 784 econo- 

 mic specimens, 1,034 of minerals and about 400 of fossils. For the card 

 catalogue of vertebrate paleontology 72 descriptive cards were written. 

 Books to the number of 282 and 1,355 pamphlets were added to the 

 Department library during the year, and 1,004 cards were added to the 

 card catalogue of the library, making a total of 3,618 cards now com- 

 prising the Departmental library catalogue. To the Department photo- 

 graphic albums 185 prints have been added since the last report, making 

 a total of 2,685 photographs now contained in these albums. All of 

 these photographs are fully labeled. The preparation of labels for the 

 exhibition series during the year has principally been concerned with 

 replacing labels of the old buff cardboard type by those of current type. 

 In connection with this work constant revision of the labels has been 



