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lacking labels, has been more satisfactory than in previous years; 

 42 cases have been fully labeled with the prospect of a completely 

 labeled installation by Spring. During the addition of the labels 

 to previously installed collections a number of these were rearranged, 

 and two cases . entirely reinstalled, to meet the demands of better 

 methods. The mounting and cataloguing of the smaller accessions 

 of the year is complete, while heavy inroads upon the material in 

 the larger herbaria have been made. 31,679 specimens have been 

 catalogued in the 54 record books of the department, of which 13,959 

 were from the University of Chicago herbarium and 6,000 from the 

 Rothrock collection. The Geographic index and that of the Collectors 

 are both complete to date. The card indices of the department 

 library and of economic plant names have multiplied, 1,250 cards 

 having been written and organized into the 15,850 now in the cases. 



All specimens in the Department of Geology received during the 

 year have been inventoried and catalogued, as received, the number 

 of entries for the year being 4,102 and the total number on the De- 

 partment books 103,081. Sixty cards have been added to the 

 catalogue of vertebrate fossils and a complete card catalogue of the 

 Department library has been made. This numbers to date 1,816 

 cards. A considerable number of temporary written labels have 

 been prepared and placed in the collections to' serve until printed 

 ones can be provided. About 400 such labels were prepared for the 

 collections in Halls 65 and 66, and about 300 for the collections in 

 Hall 72. Some of the latter are more or less descriptive. Sixty- two 

 printed labels have been prepared and distributed in the gem collec- 

 tion in Higinbotham Hall, completing the labelling of this collection, 

 and 271 paleontological labels, some of them descriptive, have been 

 made and distributed in the paleontological collections. In addition, 

 copy for about 800 labels chiefly relating to the economic collections 

 has been prepared and placed in the hands of the printer. 



The cataloguing and labeling of specimens in the Department of 

 Zoology has continued and at a rate exceeding that of the increase of 

 the collections and encourages the belief that this work, which has 

 fallen behind on account of sudden large accessions in the past, will 

 soon be abreast of other routine work. During the year, about 8,000 

 regular catalogue entries were made, including 6,700 in Ornithology, 

 1 ,200 in Mammalogy, and 100 in Oology. Many of the specimens thus 

 catalogued have required new labels and these have been supplied, 

 while a large percentage of the entries have been recorded in the 

 systematic card catalogues. Labels for exhibition specimens have 



