Field Mus u ' ■ ■ urai Hi row Rbp Vol. III. 



Curatoi G tant work 



label baa been thai ' ; . collection, Hall 66, 



the relief maps, Halls 76 and 77, and I Eiigin- 



tham Hall. For the rock 



howinj men the kind of rock and locality, 



rther descriptive labels of rock ht hundred ai 



individual lal venty-four descriptive labels w< 



thus prepared and installed. The labels ma 



riptive in 1 and designed to indi- 



the most important raphic and t illus- 



trated by th< Six1 uch labels^ i pared and install) 



r the : n in Eiiginbotham Hall, labels were pr< 



which arc uniform in with the mounting of the collection and 



id the scattered effect and 1< [exhibit! ■ which the loose 



labels hit ployed involved. These individual labels corre- 



md in size with the tablets upon which the s] mounts 



and arc printed on transparent paper. Bach i Qed firmly o 



and upon the corresponding tablet. Tl ibels show tin- name, 



and in many eases the weight of the s exhibited. 



. hundred and six such labels were prepared and affixed. In addi- 



•1 twenty-three lal ids descriptive of the different imp< irtanl varieties 



of gems were printed on transpai r and mounted on white 



cardboard. In size they are 4x6 or 6 x inches. The;.' are 



placed in the cases adjacent to the corresponding gems. Five hundred 



and D labels have made and installed for new or hitherto 



unlabellcd specimens in the systematic mineral collection; three 



hundred and fourteen labels have been similarly made and placed for 



■ ecimens and one hundred and thirty-eight for pale' 



al s: as. In addition copy has been pre] for 



r hundred and eight individual and fourteen d< :ve 



lal • the marble and building-stone collections, and one hundred 



and twenty labels for the paleont I collet ' A',! specimens 



been numbered and ued, with the l 



of such v as have not been removed from the matrix. 



These an □ field numbers only until cleaned, when permanent 



numbers igned them. In addition about fifty cards hav< 



written for the rate fossils. The inventory books 



show the largest number of specimens for thi been 



recorded in in ntology, the number in this section 



ber 34. The number of entries in all divisions is 6,074. 



