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seventy-one of these had already been catalogued in the Peruvian 

 collection, the remaining 4,294 have been numbered in 2,120 cata- 

 logue numbers; about four hundred of these have been catalogued 

 to date. 



In the Department of Botany the entries made number 7,754, bring- 

 ing the total entries to 477,490. The permanent card reference-indexes 

 maintained in the Department of Botany, and their composition, 

 are as follows: 



Number of Cards 

 Augmented 191 8 Total 



Index of Botanical Species 2,500 147,650 



Index to Common names of plants 1,200 19.950 



Index to Yucatan plants 160 6,362 



Index to Euphorbicas 85 4. 22 5 



Department Labels 262 3,100 



Index to Collectors and Collections 95 91850 



Index to Geographic collections 16 2,750 



Index to Botanical Titles (articles) 178 1,500 



Index to Department Library 137 8,800 



Index to Illinois Flora . 900 900 



Index to Hand Specimens of Woods 800 800 



Index to Cases Installed 595 



Index to Photographs 600 



6,333 207,082 



All accessions in the Department of Geology have been duly cata- 

 logued as received. The total record of catalogue entries to date is as 

 follows: Number of Record Books 22; Entries during 191 8, 510; Total 

 number of entries to December 31, 1918, 140,429; Total number of cards 

 written 8,018. The Chalmers Crystal collection has been labeled 

 throughout, 166 additional labels having been provided for this purpose. 

 Other series for which new labels have been made are those of Quater- 

 nary vertebrates and about 500 miscellaneous specimens of ores and 

 minerals. The whole comprises a total of 745 labels which have been 

 printed and for the most part installed during the year. In addition 168 

 labels have been prepared and are ready for printing. 



Owing to the small number of new accessions in the Department of 

 Zoology the total number of new entries in the catalogues was the small- 

 est in the history of the Department. The total number of regular 

 entries was only 185, of which 155 were in Ornithology and 30 in Mam- 

 malogy. In the classified card catalogues, the number of entries also 

 has been limited. In Ornithology about 150 new entries were made 

 and in Mammalogy correction and revision of about 100 cards were 

 made. New exhibition labels to complete the relabeling of the synoptic 

 collection of mammals were received from the printer and in part have 

 been installed, the remainder being held until after removal. The work 

 of re-identifying, re-cataloguing and re-tagging the study collections 



