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bringing the total entries to 482,076. The card indexes have been aug- 

 mented as follows: 



No. of Cards 

 Augmented 1919 Total 



Index of Botanical Species 4,383 152,033 



Index to Common Names of Plants 349 20,299 



Index to Yucatan Plants 6,362 



Index to Euphorbiaceae 4,225 



Index to Department Labels 3, 100 



Index to Geographic Localities 6 2,756 



Index to Collectors and Collections 42 9,892 



Index to Botanical Titles 1,500 



Index to Department Library 8,800 



Index to Illinois Flora 900 



Index to Hand Specimens of Woods 800 



Index to Installed Cases 595 



Index to Photographs 600 



4,780 211,862 



In the Department of Geology all accessions have been catalogued 

 in full as received, with the exception of the Langford collection, which, 

 as it was already packed on its arrival at the Museum, it seemed in- 

 advisable to impack for final cataloguing until space should be available 

 for its installation. The entries made during the year ntmiber 591. 

 These were chiefly of specimens of the Klechner and Dahlgren col- 

 lections. A few labels have been made to fill gaps in the series of ex- 

 hibition labels. 



Owing to the inaccessibihty of most of the study collections in the 

 Department of Zoology, due to the preparation for removal to the new 

 building, comparatively little cataloguing and labelHng has been pos- 

 sible. The total entries made during the year number 553. There 

 have been added 153 new entries in the Division of Ichthyology and 87 

 in Herpetology. Data for these entries have been added to the card 

 catalogue and the specimens have been duly labelled and tin-tagged. 

 Labels have also been prepared for a considerable portion of the exhibi- 

 tion collection in Ichthyology. Only 2 entries were made during the 

 year in the Division of Osteology, an African elephant skull and a 

 white rhinoceros skull received in exchange from the American Museum 

 of Natural History. These were catalogued and index cards written to 

 complete the record. In the Division of Mammalogy 6 catalogue 

 entries were made and in the Division of Ornithology 305. The total 

 entries to date ntimber 101,014. The cards written during the year 

 number 193, making a total of 34,406. 



The following table shows the work performed on catalogues and 

 the inventorying accomplished: 



