Jan., 1921. Annual Report of the Director. 



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DEPARTMENTAL CATALOGUING, INVENTORYING, AND LABELING. During the year 



the work of cataloguing in the Department of Anthropology has been 

 carried on as new accessions were acquired. In the division of Mexican 

 and South American archeology, the remainder of the Zavaleta collec- 

 tion, as well as the material from Ecuador and the West Indies received 

 last year, as an exchange, from the Museum of the American Indian, 

 New York, has been catalogued. The total number of catalogue cards 

 prepared amounts to 1,646. These cards are distributed over the 

 divisions as follows: Southwest, Mexican and South American Archae- 

 ology 1,501; North American Ethnology 4; Malayan Ethnology 118; 

 China, Japan and India 16; Near East Archaeology and Ethnology 3; 

 and African Ethnology 4. These cards have been entered in the inven- 

 tory books of the Department, which now number thirty-eight. The 

 number of annual accessions amounts to twenty, eighteen of which 

 have been entered. The total number of catalogue cards entered from 

 the opening of the first volume amoimts to 155,194. A new and vigorous 

 campaign in label writing and printing was inaugurated during the 

 last months of the year. The progress made so far has been entirely 

 satisfactory, numerous new labels having been added to the exhibition 

 cases. The total number of these labels amounts to 4,139, distributed 

 as follows: North West Coast 96; New Guinea 870; Mexico and South 

 America 2,316; Philippines 173; China, Tibet and Korea 442; Ainu 

 and Siberia 239; Japan 3. There were 393 new label cards added to the 

 label file. The printer supplied the department with 975 catalogue cards. 



As very little new material has been added to the organized collec- 

 tions in the Department of Botany during the year, on account of the 

 necessities contingent upon moving, only 231 incidental entries have 

 been made in the department catalogues, bringing the total entries up 

 to 482,310. The card indices of the department have been augmented 

 as follows: 



No. of Cards 





Augmented 1920 



Total 



Index to Botanical Species 



. . 4,585 



156,618 





. . 76 



20,375 





. . 5 



6,367 



Index to Euphorbiae 



. . 7 



4,232 





. . 36 



3,136 



Index to Geographic Localities .... 



, . II 



2,767 





. . 2 



9,864 



Index to Botanical Titles 



. . 75 



1,575 







8,800 



Index to Illinois Flora 



. . no 



910 





1,646 



2,446 







595 







600 



