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I In order that the total number of entries may show the total number 

 1 of specimens rather than as heretofore the total of the serial numbers 

 of the inventory books, the number of specimens has been computed. 

 The enumeration gives 98,979 as the total number of entries to date. 



In the Department of Zoology the cataloguing of specimens has 

 continued as usual, and the various collections received during the 

 year have been properly inventoried and labelled, with the exception 

 of the Entomological collections, to which more than 5,000 specimens 

 have been added. Printed labels have been prepared and installed 

 from time to time as new groups of animals have been completed 

 and placed on exhibition. 



The year's work on catalogues and inventorying is shown in 

 detail as follows: 





No. of 



Total No. of 



Entries 



Total No. of 





Record 



Entries to 



during 



Cards 





Books 



Dec. 31, 1908 



1908 



Written 



Department of Anthropology 



3 2 



94,140 



1,120 



98,530 



Department of Botany . . 



54 



244,742 



24,179 





Department of Geology 



20 



98,979 



6,074 



6,680 



Department of Zoology 



40 



73»I2 9 



5.570 



28,618 



The Library 



12 



64,921 



7.791 



76,085 



Section of Photography . 



6 



69,418 



9.895 





Accessions. — Practically all the accessions in the Department of 

 Anthropology for the year have been derived from field expeditions, 

 consequently they are of unusual interest and of great scientific 

 importance. The collections secured by Dr. Berthold Laufer are 

 especially noteworthy. Of great interest also are the collections 

 made by Mr. Cole in the Philippine Islands of Luzon and Palawan, 

 as a result of the second Robert F. Cummings' Philippine Expedition. 

 Mr. Ayer placed the Museum under further obligations by securing 

 interesting archaeological material of great value and importance 

 from Egypt and Italy. Of especial interest are the two Mastaba 

 tombs of the Fifth Dynasty, several Etruscan sarcophagi, and objects 

 of bronze from Bosco Reali. 



The Department of Botany has been fortunate in securing dur- 

 ing the past year the Florida herbarium of Professor A. S. Hitchcock, 

 consisting of a little over 7,000 specimens, most of which are from 

 Florida, but containing also a few important individual sets of plants 

 from the Bahamas and the West Indies. The principal collectors 

 represented are: J. H. Barnhardt, A. C. Bedorsha, A. W. Bitting, 

 A. A. Eaton, H. F. Henshall, A. S. Hitchcock, C. G. Lloyd, L. B. 



