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has put catalogue numbers on some 3,000 geological specimens, 

 written drawer labels, and made manuscript entries in the 

 books for many of them. This year Miss Greene has prepared 

 more than 15,000 cards for the palseontological catalogue under 

 the direction of the Associate Curator, and has developed great 

 proficiency in the work. About one-fourth of the cards needed 

 for the replacement of the Whitfield book catalogue have now 

 been prepared. 



The Curator captioned and turned over to the Department 

 of Public Education about 600 negatives resulting from his 

 visit to the Arctic in 1915-1917. He prepared 

 Crocker for the Department of Anthropology some geo- 



Expedition logical notes on the kitchen midden sites of the 

 Smith Sound region and a preliminary descrip- 

 tion of the Ahk-po-hone iron meteorite which Mr. Ekblaw of 

 the Crocker Land Expedition brought down from Ellesmere 

 Land. Mr. Ekblaw, who is Research Associate in the depart- 

 ment, has been working up, at the University of Illinois, his 

 geological and geographical data obtained in the Cape York- 

 Smith Sound region and in northern Grant Land. Early in 

 December there appeared from the press of Harper and 

 Brothers, Dr. D. B. MacMillan's 400-page book, "Four Years 

 in the White North," giving a vivid account of the journeys, 

 labors and experiences of the Crocker Land Expedition staff 

 and of life in general in the Far Arctic. 



The New York Academy of Sciences is publishing the base 

 map of Porto Rico prepared by Dr. Reeds and Mr. A. Briese- 

 meister in 19 15. It is to be hoped that the Carib- 

 Research bean and West Indies map, prepared by the same 



Publication authors in 19 16, can be completed and published 

 during the coming year. The illustrations in Dr. 

 O'Connell's paper on the "Schrammen Collection of Silici- 

 spongiae of Northwestern Germany," the text of which was 

 prepared last year, were finished in November, and the article 

 is in the hands of the editor of the Museum Bulletin. When 

 Dr. O'Connell returned to the Museum in September, she 

 undertook the study of some Jurassic ammonites which Mr. 



