186 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSKUM, l8dl. 



Byron E. Dodok (Richfield, Genesee C!ouiity, Mich.): A Ktone hatchet with handle 

 of wood, found in Genesee County, Mich. Also, a spearhead of agate and a cat- 

 linite pipe from same locality. (Deposit.) (Acc.24272.) 



Edwahd T. Ingram (Marshalltown, Pa.): Sixty-one leaf-shaped implements of 

 argillite, found en cache in Chester County, Pa. These are a valuable contribu- 

 tion to our display, and have l>eeu arranged as found and tlie cache reproduced. 

 (Gift.) (Ace. 24026.) 



John G. Webb (Osprey, Manatee County, Fla.) : Fragment of a hum.in skull turned 

 to limonite, found in 1868 on section 8, township 37 .S., range 18 E., Little Sarasota 

 Bay, Florida. (Gift.) (Ace. 2411.5.) 



John G. Webb (Osprey, Manatee County, Fla.) : Two pieces of sandstone rock con- 

 taining fossil human bones; vertebrjB and ribs, found on section 10, township 

 37 S., range ]8 E,, Little Sarasota Bay, Florida. (Gift.) (Ace. 23727.) 



Joseph Wilcox (Philadelphia, Pa.): Fossil human bone, socket of femur inclosed 

 in limonite, found in 1886 by Col. Wilcox and Prof. Heilprin on section 6, town- 

 ship 36 S., range 18 E., on Sarasota Bay, Florida. (Gift.) (Ace. 243.57.) 



G. G. B. Greenwood (Minerva Ohio) : A mortar made from a sandstone bowlder 

 found by W. R. Tarbet in the Canal Dover gravel pit, glacial moraine, Tuscarawas 

 County, Ohio. (Gift.) Ace. 23497.) 



STATEMENT OF CHARACTER OF ROUTINE WORK, CLASSIFICATION 

 AND ARRANGEMENT OF COLLECTION, ETC. 



The routine work has been of mucli the same charaoter as in former 

 years. It consists primarily of the receipt of specimens, their classifi- 

 cation, naming, numbering, entering in the catalogue with accession 

 and catalogue numbers, and marking the number of each specimen, 

 and, on a considerable portion of them, the locality and douor's name. 

 The entering of them in the catalogue books requires also the recording 

 of all information received or obtainable from the senders, and tinaUy 

 the distribution of the objects in their proper cases. 



The collections, as displayed in the cases of the grand hall, have to 

 be rearranged according as new specimens are received. Monthly re- 

 ports and reports ui^on letters and objects sent for examination, the 

 giving of information, answering of letters, conducting friends and visit- 

 ors through the Museum, and explaining the objects to them — these are 

 the other portions of routine work, and they are more tlian sufficient 

 to occupy office hours. There have been almost a thousand reports 

 and letters written during the year, consuming nigh six thousand 

 pages of type- written matter, the principal portion of which was dic- 

 tated into the phonograph by the curator at his home out of office 

 hours. 



Some years ago the curator prepared and submitted to the Director 

 of the National Museum a proposition for a new classification and rear- 

 rangement of the departmental collection. The previous arrangement 

 was according to function ; that is, all objects, from whatever locality, 

 were placed together, as grooved axes together, stone hatchets together, 

 and so of all kinds of arrow and spear-heads, knives, scrapers, etc. 



This I proposed to abandon, and to substitute for it an arrangement 

 according to locality, all objects of whatever nature from a given local- 

 ity to be displayed together. 



