Report of the President 41 



Under the supervision of the Bursar, F. H. Smyth, the 

 property list of the furniture and equipment of the Museum 

 has been completed and filed with the Department of Finance, 

 and each piece of furniture provided with a metal tag bear- 

 ing its number. It is to be noted that the need of such a list 

 was recognized and that the list was well advanced long 

 before it was requested by the City authorities. 



Under the direction of J. B. Foulke, Superintendent of 

 Building, the many keys in use in the building have been 

 carefully rearranged and provided with metal tags bearing the 

 symbol of their respective rooms, and the card catalogue 

 showing the responsible holder of the keys is well advanced. 



As noted in the Report for 1912, the material in the various 

 departments is mostly catalogued, the exception being the 

 Department of Invertebrate Zoology, which deals with such 

 vast numbers of minute creatures that it is a physical impossi- 

 bility to catalogue them as fast as they can be collected. For 

 example, 1,067 insects were collected during the brief expedi- 

 tion to Cuba, while in 191 1, something like 70,000 specimens 

 were added to the collections. 



Following is a list of the catalogued and uncatalogued 

 specimens in the various departments: 



Catalogued Uncatalogued 



Department of Geology and Invertebrate Palaeontology. 98,000 400,000 



Department of Mineralogy 20,266 672 



Department of Invertebrate Zoology 98,095 1,480,000 



Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology 18,257 2,000 



Department of Mammalogy and Ornithology 147,600 4,500 



Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology 18,356 20,661 



Department of Anthropology 208,887 



Department of Public Health 633 .... 



Department of Woods and Forestry 607 999 



Department of Books and Publications 67,465 .... 



Department of Public Education 95,556 836 



Total 773,722 1,909,668 



It is again encouraging to record an increase in the attend- 

 ance, especially in the number of those who are visitors to the 



A Museum itself and who are not attracted by the 



Attendance , , T , , , 



lectures or other meetings. It has always been 



the belief of the Director that temporary exhibits, no matter 



how attractive, do not result in any real profit to a museum, 



