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cases the preparation of eards for card catalogues suid, perhaps, hilx'ls 

 for exhibition purposes as well. In addition, considerable progress 

 was made in working over the old materials. 



Much time, as before, is occupied in identifying material received 

 from other institutions or from individuals, and for which the Museum 

 receives no adec^uate return. Some 297 of these temporary accessions 

 have received attention during the year. 



Mrs. Jouy, who has been placed in charge of the records of the 

 Department, reports the following entries in the catalogue^, books: 

 Division of Geology and Sections of Paleobotany and Vertebrate 

 Paleontology, 1,750; Section of Invertebrate Paleontology, 2,102; 

 Division of Mineralogy, 129. Three thousand one hundred and fifty- 

 seven catalogue cards have been prepared, also manuscript for 558 

 labels for the Government Printer. Some 30,000 numbers have been 

 painted upon specimens by ]\Ir. Gruikshank and the Misses Voute 

 and Moody. 



Several of the collections, including the concretions and cave and 

 glacial deposits, in the Division of Geology, have been thoroughly 

 overhauled and resirranged, and over 500 specimens re-installed in new 

 exhi])ition jars. Some one hundred photographs, maps, and other 

 illustrations have been distributed among the exhibition series. The 

 details of this work, as in years past, have been looked after 1)}^ Mr. 

 Newhall. The mineralogical hall was disarranged in January, owing 

 to the erection of the new galleries, and is now in process of restora- 

 tion. The work can scarcely be finished during the present fiscal 

 year. 



Mr. Schuchert reports that altogether he has put awa}" in final 

 museum form during the year some 21,000 specimens. Twenty-tive 

 boxes of old material have been Avithdrawn from storage and the 

 material worked into the Museum collections. The installation of 

 the Harris collection has been completed. 



Mr. Lucas, who still remains in charge of tlie vertel)rate fossils, 

 reports the mounting of the hind legs and pelvis of Ti'iceratops jjror- 

 siis and similar parts of the carnivorous dinosaur Allosaurus. 



The time of Dr. Peale has been iuWy taken up in attending to the 

 routine of his department, and no progress whatever has been made 

 on the exhi])ition series. The study material, which has received his 

 chief attention, is rapidl}- becoming systematized and put in tirst-class 

 condition. 



A systematic eti'ort has been made toward preparing a catalogue of 

 the type and illustrated specimens in all the sections and divisions of 

 the Department. This has taken a considera])le amount of time on the 

 part of the heads of the various divisions, the clerical work remaining 

 largely in the hands of Mrs. Jouy and Miss Graves. The manuscript 

 for nearly G,()00 type and illustrated specimens has thus been prepared. 



NAT MUS 1902 



