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more careful and extended analysis of many sets of periodicals. There 

 have been written and filed in the catalogues 21,000 cards. Twelve 

 installments of the John Crerar Library library cards have been 

 received and alphabetically arranged in the catalogue. During the 

 summer months the Stack Room was thoroughly cleaned, and a com- 

 plete rearrangement of the books made. A discarded exhibition case 

 was fitted with shelves and converted into a temporary bookcase. 



Departmental Cataloguing, Inventorying, and Labeling. — The catalogue 

 cards prepared by the Department of Anthropology during the year 

 numbered 2,825, distributed as follows: Archaeology, 401; Mela- 

 nesian Ethnology, 1,374; Asiatic Ethnology, 1,050. These cards 

 with the addition of 1,885 from the preceding year make a total 

 of 4,710 that have been entered in the inventory books of the Depart- 

 ment. Of the cards relating to American archaeology some have not 

 as yet been turned over to the cataloguer, being retained for further 

 reference in connection with the installation of the material which they 

 record. The number of accessions for the year is 26, of which 25 have 

 been recorded in the inventory. The volumes of inventories number 

 37. The labels printed for the Department during the year number 

 3,045, of which 621 were for the Melanesian division, with the addition 

 of 135 prepared for the Fiji collection by Assistant Curator Cole, 22 for 

 American Ethnology and over 2,000 for the Division of Asiatic Ethnol- 

 ogy. The photographic prints prepared for the Department were 

 classified and arranged in albums, of which 1 1 volumes were added to the 

 series, 9 containing photographs of Chinese and 2 of Tibetan specimens. 



The Curator of Botany reports the preparation of 650 labels. Of 

 these all that have been printed have been placed against the objects 

 installed. The complete card catalogue of all the collectors and geo- 

 graphic regions represented by specimens installed, containing over 

 12,000 cards, has been finished and arranged in a new and readily 

 referable steel index case. This catalogue is unique and of the greatest 

 value not only to students of the world of plants, but to the efficiency of 

 the Department itself. The work of inventorying the specimens 

 organized has been kept up to date, 7,521 entries having been made 

 during the year, making the total number of entries 412,486. 



The material catalogued in the Department of Geology during the 

 year included 590 mineral specimens, 355 economic specimens, and 364 

 miscellaneous. A total of 2,138 labels was prepared during the year, 

 of which 891 have been printed and distributed. The most important 

 series of these was that for the meteorite collection, the number made 

 for that purpo?/ being 1,003. These labels show for each specimen 

 the classification of the meteorite, the locality of the fall or find, date 



