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lating to New Gmnea were prepared. A catalogue of lantern-slides 

 was inaugiirated by the Department, for which 1,537 cards have been 

 written. The slides have been arranged in the succession of the num- 

 bers and placed in cardboard boxes with a label pasted in front, showing 

 the range of the numbers, subject, and locality of the slides. By con- 

 sulting the card-catalogue it is possible to locate any slide or to ascertain 

 what slides relate to a particular subject, region, or tribe. To meet 

 the demand of the public for information on specimens in the collec- 

 tions and as copies of many labels have been solicited by students, a 

 permanent record of all labels written for the Department has been 

 established. When printing labels intended for installation, copies 

 are made, which are mounted on cardboard, and classified according 

 to the cases in which the specimens are installed. These cards, 

 620 of which have thus far been prepared, are filed in proper order 

 in cabinets showing identification labels on the outside. A card- 

 catalogue of the exhibition cases, which have all been provided with 

 numbers, has also been inaugurated. 



All material received by the Department of Botany during the year 

 has been fully catalogued and distributed, either into installation or 

 classified and placed ready for installation. There were catalogued 

 19,831 sheets of specimens and 20,305 entries have been made, making 

 the total ntunber of entries 432,791. 



Cataloguing of all specimens in the Department of Geology is com- 

 plete, specimens received during the year being catalogued as received. 

 Of the specimens catalogued 2,860 were palseontological specimens; 286 

 economic specimens; 102 mineralogical specimens and 118 miscellane- 

 ous, making a total of 3,366. Labels prepared numbered 660, of 

 which 309 were printed and distributed. Among the collections which 

 were labeled entire were those of the folklore of gems. Pleistocene 

 fossils, coal tar products, and others of the economic series. Among 

 these were several large, descriptive labels. To the Departmental 

 photograph albiuns 63 prints have been added, making a total of 3,748 

 prints now in these albtuns. 



In the Department of Zoology 1,793 entries in the primary catalogue 

 for birds and mammals have been made. The systematic card cata- 

 logues have received more than usual revision and additions. The col- 

 lection of mammals in alcohol, principally bats, has been provided with 

 617 new labels. 1,524 labels for shells have also been written, of which 

 1,353 were installed. 



The following table shows the work performed on catalogues and 

 the inventorying accomplished: 



