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ten labels in the clay and soil collections were replaced by correct ones. 

 Considerable attention was paid during the year to devising a new form 

 of case label and the results at present attained seem satisfactory. The 

 difficulty has been to find a stock for printing which would correspond 

 with the case in color and not change under the action of light. After 

 numerous experiments the end seems to be attained by employing a 

 mahogany veneer mounted upon a heavy board . The veneer is finished 

 to correspond in color and gloss with the case and the text of the label 

 is then printed upon it. About 40 of these labels have been prepared 

 and installed. Their appearance is much better than that of the card- 

 board hitherto employed and it is believed they will not suffer from 

 fading. In the Department of Zoology the usual routine of cataloguing 

 has been maintained. Altogether 902 entries have been made; 861 in 

 Ornithology and 41 in Mammalogy. The Division of Ichthyology 

 and Herpetology has been without an assistant for more than two 

 years and for this reason cataloguing in this Division has advanced 

 slowly. In addition to his regular duties the Assistant Curator of 

 Entomology has devoted considerable time to relabeling the systematic 

 bird collection during the absence of Assistant Curator Osgood, who 

 was absent in the field. Considerable progress was, however, made 

 in improving the local collection of insects of which Soo specimens were 

 pinned, labeled and distributed with the result that the Illinois Orthop- 

 tera, or grasshoppers, roaches, etc., have now been identified and 

 systematically arranged so that these insects will henceforth be acces- 

 sible for study or other purposes. The collection of Systematic Osteology 

 and Craniology has been relabeled throughout, the common name 

 of the species being placed in bold type at the top of the label. 



The work in this important direction is shown in detail as follows: 



accessions. — As usual, the majority of accessions acquired by 

 the Department of Anthropology have been through gift. Mr. Homer 

 Sargent continued to show his interest in the Museum by presenting 

 additional valuable material illustrating the technology of certain 

 Salish tribes of the Fraser River region. From Mr. Charles A. Baker, 

 as administrator for the Estate of the late R. H. Baker, the Museum 



