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covering the Ayer, Darrah, Jenks and Porter collections and nearly a 

 thousand labels prepared for the Tlingit collections now installed 

 in the East Alcoves of the South Court. The iron agricultural im- 

 plements from Boscoreale installed in the North Court have been 

 labeled and about 800 specimen labels have been prepared for the 

 Philippine material, besides many large descriptive labels especially 

 prepared for groups and for special industries. Many revised labels 

 have been placed in the McCormick Hopi collections and the old buff 

 labels in the Egyptian Hall have been replaced by black and white 

 labels. Rubbings of the inscriptions on the great stone sarcophagus 

 from Egypt have been made and submitted to Dr. Breasted of the 

 University of Chicago, to be used in preparing a comprehensive label. 

 There have been prepared for the Chinese collections 1,100 labels . In these 

 Dr. Laufer has aimed, so far as possible, to avoid technical phraseology 

 and erudition, to make the labels plain and intelligible to the layman. 

 Thus, in explaining Chinese paintings emphasis has been laid on the 

 appreciation of the spirit and inward qualities of Chinese art, in order 

 to lead the public to a correct understanding and a sound judgment 

 rather than to actual knowledge of a subject' so 1 - foreign to the majority 

 of people. All the current accessions in the Department of Botany 

 for the past year, amounting to 13,517 specimens, have been catalogued 

 and 11,078 specimens entered from the large collections undergoing 

 organization. These two items make a total of 24,595 entries made in 

 the catalogue volumes during the year. A new and additional steel 

 card index case has been added to the laboratory equipment, comprising 

 91 drawers. This will give a capacity for expansion of the "Special 

 Index" for about three years. All specimens added to the exhibition 

 cases in the Department have been labeled. The material received 

 by the Department of Geology during the year was fully inventoried 

 and catalogued with the exception of the Ward-Coonley meteorites, 

 cataloguing of which is still in progress. The cataloguing accomplished 

 was chiefly of collections of fossils and minerals and the fossils collected 

 in Iowa by the Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology. Care- 

 ful identification of species was carried on in connection with this work. 

 While this requires the expenditure of much time, the greater complete- 

 ness of the catalogue thus obtained is believed desirable. The series 

 of petroleums received during the year numbering 228 specimens was 

 also fully catalogued. To the card catalogue of vertebrate fossils 32 

 cards giving full description of specimens were added. The Depart- 

 ment library was increased by the addition of 646 books, pamphlets 

 and maps, and 123 cards were added to the catalogue of the library, 

 making a total of 2,614 cards. A considerable amount of labeling of 



