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The Curator of Geology reports, the most important work of 

 labelling has been that of the systematic rock collection, Hall 66, 

 the relief maps, Halls 76 and 77, and the gem collection in Higin- 

 botham Hall. For the rock collection two kinds of labels were pre- 

 pared, one showing for each specimen the kind of rock and locality, 

 and the other descriptive labels of rock varieties. Eight hundred and 

 seventy individual labels and seventy-four descriptive labels were 

 thus prepared for these collections and installed. The labels made 

 for the relief maps were descriptive in character and designed to indi- 

 cate the most important geographic and topographic features illus- 

 trated by the maps. Sixteen such labels were prepared and installed. 

 For the gem collection in Higinbotham Hall, labels were prepared 

 which are uniform in tone with the mounting of the collection and 

 avoid the scattered effect and loss of exhibition space which the loose 

 labels hitherto employed involved. These individual labels corre- 

 spond in size with the tablets upon which the specimens are mounted, 

 and are printed on transparent paper. Each is fastened firmly over 

 and upon the corresponding tablet. These labels show the name, 

 locality, and in many cases the weight of the specimens exhibited. 

 Six hundred and six such labels were prepared and affixed. In addi- 

 tion twenty-three labels descriptive of the different important varieties 

 of gems were printed on transparent paper and mounted on white 

 cardboard. In size they are 4x6 or 6x6 inches. They are 

 placed in the cases adjacent to the corresponding gems. Five hundred 

 and seven labels have been made and installed for new or hitherto 

 unlabelled specimens in the systematic mineral collection; three 

 hundred and fourteen labels have been similarly made and placed for 

 economic specimens and one hundred and thirty-eight for paleon- 

 tological specimens. In addition copy has been prepared for 

 four hundred and eighty-one individual and fourteen descriptive 

 labels for the marble and building-stone collections, and one hundred 

 and twenty labels for the paleontological collections. All specimens 

 received have been numbered and catalogued, with the exception 

 of such vertebrate fossils as have not been removed from the matrix. 

 These are given field numbers only until cleaned, when permanent 

 numbers are assigned them. In addition about fifty cards have been 

 written for the catalogue of vertebrate fossils. The inventory books 

 show the largest number of specimens for the year to have been 

 recorded in invertebrate paleontology, the number in this section 

 being 5,624. The total number of entries in all divisions is 6,074. 



