3o8 Field Museum of Natural History — Reports, Vol. V. 



from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, an almost 

 complete set of its Memoirs, thirty-four volimies, covering the years 

 1864 to 1916. From the Sullivant Moss Society, New York City, was 

 received a set to date of its publication. The Bryologist, in sixteen vol- 

 imies. One himdred and seventeen books were boimd during the 

 year. While it ordinarily is imwise to keep separate numbers of serials 

 and periodicals in an unbound condition, the prices of all materials 

 used in binding having increased nearly one himdred per cent in the 

 past few years, binding at present prices seems prohibitive. There 

 were written and filed in the catalogues 18,054 cards. The regular 

 monthly installment of author cards was received from the John Crerar 

 Library. The Museum is unusually indebted this year to large Hbraries 

 both in and out of Chicago for the loan of books that were necessary 

 in the performance of its work; these courtesies are gratefully ac- 

 knowledged, especially to the Library of Congress, the Library of the 

 Department of Agriculture, the Surgeon General's Library, the John 

 Crerar Library and the Lihmry of the University of Chicago. A list of 

 all accessions received by the Library dming the year will be fotmd 

 elsewhere in this report. 



Departmental Cataloguing, Inventorying, and Labeling. — During the year, 

 in the Department of Anthropology, the work of cataloguing has 

 been carried on as new accessions were acquired, but this task was 

 naturally eclipsed by the necessary preparations for moving collections 

 into the new btiilding. The total number of catalogue cards prepared 

 amoimts to 577. These cards were distributed over the single divisions 

 as follows: China, Japan, and India 117; Melanesian Ethnology 325; 

 South- West, Mexican, and South American Archaeology 125; and 

 North American Ethnology 10. All these cards have been entered in 

 the inventory books of the Department, which now number thirty- 

 eight. The number of annual accessions amounts to twenty-five, 

 nineteen of which have been entered. The total nimiber of catalogue 

 cards entered from the opening of the first volume amounts to 153,548. 

 The photographer made 297 negatives and two enlargements, and sup- 

 plied 370 prints to the Department, 160 of these referring to Japanese 

 sword-guards. Twenty-foiu: prints were added to the photographic 

 albimis kept in the Department. The printer delivered to the Depart- 

 ment a total of 5,419 labels for use in exhibition cases. These labels are 

 distributed as follows: New Guinea 1,939; Eskimo and Northwest 

 Coast 2,622; Mexico 841; and China 17. The printer further suppHed 

 the Department with 700 catalogue cards. 373 new label cards were 

 added to the label file. 



In the Department of Botany the entries made number 4,586, 



