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received from 625 societies and institutions and 137 individuals. 

 Continuous efforts are made to effect exchanges with contemporary 

 institutions, and during the year 125 names have been added to the 

 mailing list. No changes of importance have been made in the routine 

 work of the library. Twelve installments of the John Crerar Library 

 cards have been received and filed and 12,483 cards revised and 

 newly written for the three catalogues. The books and pamphlets 

 are distributed as follows: 



Books and Pamphlets. 



General Library, 31,766 



Department of Anthropology, 1,275 



Department of Botany, 2,786 



Department of Geology, \ . . . 5,082 



Department of Zoology, 850 



Departmental Cataloguing, Inventorying, and Labeling. — The cataloguing 

 in the Department of Anthropology has been continued through- 

 out the year as rapidly as possible, over eight thousand speci- 

 mens being catalogued, and a card catalogue made of over sev- 

 enty-five hundred specimens, all of which have been entered in the 

 inventory books, which now number thirty. Owing to the great 

 amount of material which has been received by this department 

 during the year, and owing to the absence of the Assistant Curator of 

 Ethnology on expedition for a large part of the year, a great deal of 

 cataloguing had to be postponed. The manuscripts of specimen labels 

 for the North Pacific Coast collections, numbering several thousand, 

 have been prepared and are in the hands of the Museum printer. Case 

 labels have been printed for six Northwest Coast Halls, as well as for 

 all cases in California Hall, and nearly all have been put in place. 



In the Department of Botany, the cataloguing of organized and 

 new material has been kept up to date in the forty-nine record books 

 of the department. In this work, 15,490 entries have been made 

 during the year, making a total of 193,498 in all. It is worthy of 

 special notice that during the year a complete series of the extensive 

 and valuable Card-Index of Genera, Species and Varieties of Plants 

 published since 1885 (formerly issued by Miss Josephine A. Clark, 

 Librarian of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, but latterly 

 published by the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University), containing 

 over 40,000 printed cards, has been acquired and carefully arranged, 

 and a new steel case, especially designed to accompany the steel her- 

 barium cases secured last year, has been installed to accommodate this 

 index and the Index Botanique Universelle. 



