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have been carried on during the actual progress of the work, 

 and some satisfactory results have been reached. 



The current work of preparing maps, labels, and lettering 

 has been performed by the department; also the general work 

 in photography for the Museum. 



Some relief maps have been modeled and the large Ant- 

 arctic charts now in the foyer have been made. A large 

 number of piece moulds, casts, etc., have been made for 

 various departments, as noted under the departments to 

 which they belong. 



Department of Books and Publications. — During the 

 past year the special work has been the cataloguing of the 

 Library, which was necessitated by the adoption of a new and 

 more scientific method of classification; as a result 32,872 

 volumes have been catalogued with both subject and author 

 index. This work has been under the direct supervision of 

 Miss I. R. Hood. 



The accessions for the year amounted to 2,931 volumes 

 and 3,103 pamphlets; among which are many valuable serials 

 as well as the more important new books which have appeared 

 during the year. 



Of special interest has been the gift of the private library 

 of Professor H. C. Bumpus and also the gift of the elephant 

 folio edition of Audubon's "Birds of America," by Mr. Archi- 

 bald Rogers. Mr. John R. Livermore has given a painting of 

 the White-throated Sparrow, bearing the signature of J. J. 

 Audubon. Prof. Wheeler has presented to the Museum his 

 collections of books and pamphlets on Arachnida, and the 

 Museum has acquired by purchase his library on North 

 American Diptera. 



On the shelves of the Library will now be found the cur- 

 rent numbers of all the important periodicals relating to natural 

 history, together with the larger number of the publications 

 of the Academies and learned Societies of the world. 



The book-binding department has been engaged almost 

 entirely in the covering of separata, which have been accumu- 

 lating for many years. 



