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it is important to call the attention of other workers to this, or at least 
Suggest something that will cause them to do the same thing. 
The slide box or tray is marked with Roman numerals. The places 
for the slides are usually marked with the Arabic numbers by the manu- 
facturer of the boxes. On the label of each slide are marked the Roman 
numeral, which indicates the number of the box in which the slide is to 
be placed and the Arabic number, which indicates its position in the box. 
All the slides are now catalogued on cards or on sheets of paper. In 
cataloguing, the name of the specimen on each slide should be given and 
following in the Roman and Arabic numbers on that particular slide. The 
ecards should be arranged alphabetically and kept near the slides. Since 
the slides are used by the different students, they will have to be replaced, 
and by this method any one can tell in an instant where they belong. If, 
for instance, you desire a section of liver, look for same on card. The ref- 
erence may be XII—24; hence, find box XII, and the slide will be found 
at “24.” 
A Meruop or RE@IstRATION FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL PuRPOSES. 
By Amos W. ButTLer. 
The Board of State Charities has undertaken a registration of the in- 
mates of the various benevolent and correctional institutions of the State. 
The work began by an enumeration of the inmates of poor asylums, or- 
phans’ homes and insane hospitals, some years since, and has been elab- 
rated so as to give the individual and family history of each person. This 
is now being extended to the prisons, reformatory, reform schools, school 
for feeble-minded youth, and institution for the education of the deaf. 
The information to be obtained includes the name, age, color, date of 
admission, physical and mental condition, together with information con- 
cerning education, home influences, religious influences, character of train- 
ing, whether possessed of a trade, and other facts that are thought will 
have a bearing upon the individual. Family history includes the names 
of both parents, the place of their nativity, their pecuniary condition, 
whether intemperate, criminal, insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or con- 
