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In order that the total number of entries may show the total number 

 01 specimens rather than as her e the total of the serial numb' 



of the inventory books, the number of specimens has been computed. 

 The enumeration gives 98,979 as the total number of entries to 'late. 



In the Department of Zoology the cataloguing of specimens has 

 continued as usual, and the various collections r 1 during the 



year have been properly inventoried and labelled, with the exception 

 of the Entomological collections, to which more than 5,000 specimens 

 have I een added. Printed labels have been prepared and installed 

 from time to time as new groups of animals have been completed 

 and placed on exhibition. 



The year's work on catalogues and inventorying is shown in 

 detail as follows: 



accessions. — Practically all the accessions in the Department of 

 Anthropology for the year have been derived from field expeditions, 

 consequently they are of unusual interest and of great scientific 

 importance. The collections secured by Dr. Berthold Laufer are 

 especially noteworthy. Of great interest also are the collections 

 made by Mr. Cole in the Philippine Islands of Luzon and Palawan, 

 as a result of the second Robert F. Cummings' Philippine Expedition. 

 Mr. Aver placed the Museum under further obligations by securing 

 interesting archaeological material of great value and importance 

 from Egypt and Italy. Of especial interest are the two Mastaba 

 tombs of the Fifth Dynasty, several Etruscan sarcophagi, and objects 

 of bronze from Bosco Reali. 



The Department of Botany has been fortunate in securing dur- 

 ing the past year the Florida herbarium of Professor A. S. Hitchcock, 

 consisting of a little over 7,000 specimens, most of which are from 

 Florida, but containing also a few important individual sets of plants 

 from the Bahamas and the West Indies. The principal collectors 

 represented are: J. II. Barnhardt, A. C. Bedorsha, A. \V. Bitting, 

 A. A. Eaton, II. F. Henshall. A. S. Hitchcock, C. G. Lloyd, L. B. 



