Oct.  1896.  Annual  Report  of  the  Director. 
95 
the  mammals  in  the  West  Court,  and  the  purchasing  lists  of  three 
large  shell  collections  have  been  compared  with  the  material  and 
corrected  preparatory  to  inventory.  The  entire  collection  in  the 
Department  of  Ornithology  has  been  catalogued,  something  over 
1,000  skins  having  been  recorded  quite  recently.  Labels  have  been 
written  for  all  the  mounted  birds.  The  Department  of  Industrial 
Arts  has  finished  its  card  catalogue  and  Inventory,  and  reports 
that  only  a  very  few  labels  are  lacking.  Owing  to  the  demands 
of  his  regular  duties,  the  Recorder  who  has  charge  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Columbus  Memorial,  has  done  little  in  Memorial  Hall  this 
year  except  to  replace  new  for  old  labels.  The  catalogue  was  com- 
pleted in  1895.  The  important  work  to  be  done  is  the  numbering  of 
the  pictures  to  correspond  with  the  original  Exposition  inventory. 
When  all  the  material  is  identified  and  numbered  correctly,  it  will  be 
possible  to  print  a  hand-book  to  the  collection,  the  manuscript  of 
which  is  now  in  possession  of  the  Museum,  and  which  would  add 
greatly  to  interest  in  the  collection. 
The  year's  work  in  the  Museum  on  catalogues  and  inventories  is 
shown  in  detail  : 
Total  No.  of 
Entries 
No.  of 
entries  to 
between 
Total  No.  of 
Record  Books. 
Oct.  1,  1896. 
1895-6. 
Cards  Written. 
Anthropology, 
II 
9,089 
9,089 
13,200 
Botany,  
10 
n,949 
9,000 
1,000 
Geology,  . 
7 
13,185 
5,312 
6,000 
History,  ... 
2 
1,514 
— com 
pleted — 
Industrial  Arts,  . 
8 
13,600 
100 
860 
Monographic  Col., 
2 
202 
202 
Zoology,      .    .  . 
8 
6,339 
6,339 
4,345 
Library,      .    .  . 
3 
1,835 
12,000 
Section  of  Photog., 
1 
997 
997 
Accessions. — The 
accessions 
of  material  by  gift, 
purchase  and 
sdition  have  been 
large  and 
valuable, 
and  seem 
to  have  been 
rather  evenly  distributed  among  the  different  Departments,  if  the  pre- 
vailing flattering  estimate  of  the  results  of  the  African  expedition  be 
included.  It  is  obviously  impossible  to  discuss  all  of  the  many  acces- 
sions, but  some  seem  to  demand  a  reference  beyond  the  simple  record. 
A  number  of  noteworthy  additions  have  been  made  to  the  Department 
of  Anthroplogy.  Special  attention  may  be  directed  to  the  collections 
of  Eskimo  material  brought  from  Northern  Alaska  by  Miner  W. 
Bruce.  These  include  Valuable  fur  costumes,  implements  and  uten- 
sils pertaining  to  the  native  arts  and  industries,  and  many  carvings 
in  bone  and  ivory.  It  is  expected  that  these  will  be  utilized  to  some 
extent  in  setting  up   a  group   of  figures  illustrating  the  Alaskan 
