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titles, group 3 contains 88 titles. These several groups have been 

 packed separately, and await further disposition. A number of 

 valuable books have been purchased during the year, but many 

 more are desired, particularly in the departments of Anthropology 

 and Botany. 



Departmental Cataloguing, Inventorying and Labeling. — The catalog- 

 uing in the Department of Anthropology has been continued almost 

 without interruption throughout the year, over 1 2 ,000 specimens having 

 been catalogued, and a card catalogue made of about 7,500 specimens, 

 all of which have been entered in the inventory books, which now 

 number twenty-seven. 



All the specimens of a number of installed cases in the Department 

 of Botany have been exhaustively labeled; all labels for the dendro- 

 logic installation are printed and in readiness for use. The copy 

 has been written for all the unlabeled material that has been installed ; 

 all new material has been properly organized, catalogued and cared 

 for; the index of vernacular names and references augmented by 

 several thousand cards, and all matters pertaining to the collec- 

 tions and work of the department kept rigidly up to date. 



Specimens in the Department of Geology are inventoried and 

 catalogued as received. The total number of entries made during 

 the year is 10,635, which, added to the previously recorded number, 

 gives 72,837 as the total present number of entries in the Department. 

 The principal work of labeling performed was in connection with the 

 systematic mineral collection and the collections in Hall 78. For 

 the systematic minerals a total of 1,925 labels was prepared during 

 the year, of which 1,536 have been printed and distributed. The 

 sizes of labels used for this collection are governed by those of the 

 specimen mounts, four different forms being employed. For the 

 collections in Hall 78, 957 labels have been prepared, of which 838 

 have been printed and distributed. These labels also vary in size, 

 according to the size of the mount, three forms being employed, besides 

 descriptive labels. Aluminum ink and black cardboard have been 

 used for all these labels. The increased interest evinced by visitors 

 in these collections since the labeling has been completed is noticeable 

 and gratifying. Additional labels prepared during the year have 

 included fourteen fully descriptive labels for the relief maps and about 

 one hundred labels for meteorites and paleontological specimens. 



In the Department of Zoology considerable clerical work was 

 accomplished, the entries in the inventory books registering 9,445, 



