442  Field  Columbian  Museum — Reports,  Vol.  i. 
The  work  of  keeping  up  such  a  series  of  cards  is  infinitely  slight, 
while  the  status  of  the  collections  is  thereby  positively  known,  and 
ready  reference  to  all  collectors  and  localities  represented  in  the  col- 
lections is  at  the  hand  of  any  one  desiring  to  use  the  material.  As  to 
the  time  required  to  keep  such  systematic  records  no  details  can  be 
given,  but  the  fact  that  over  50,000  specimens  have  been  mounted 
and  distributed,  and  over  80,000  recorded,  by  two  persons  in  five 
years,  while  attending  to  the  various  duties  of  this  department,  will 
serve  to  give  some  idea  of  this  work." 
The  year's  work  in  the  Museum  on  catalogues  and  inventorying 
is  shown  in  detail  as  follows  : 
No.  of 
Total  No. 
Entries 
Total  No. 
Record 
of  Entries  to 
during 
of  Cards 
Department. 
Books. 
Sept.  30, 1900. 
1899-1900. 
Written. 
Anthropology,  . 
20 
41,663 
9.372 
42,291 
Botany, 
•  31 
81,810 
12,070 
2,600 
Geology,  .    .  . 
II 
26,170 
4,214 
6,000 
Library,  . 
5 
24,249 
4,760 
12,500 
Ornithology,  . 
3 
1 1 ,069 
Photography, 
•  "  4 
6,392 
1,466 
Zoology,  . 
20 
23,238 
1,936 
11,600 
Accessions. — Very  important  accessions  have  been  received  by 
the  Museum  during  the  year.  The  most  notable  in  the  Department 
of  Anthropology  were  the  Perrine  collection,  from  the  quarry  sites  of 
Union  County,  Illinois,  containing  many  of  the  finest  chipped  and 
polished  stone  implements  ever  brought  together ;  a  collection  of 
over  1,000  objects  from  prehistoric  graves  in  Chile,  presented  by  Mr. 
Cyrus  H.  McCormick;  a  large  collection  from  the  Swiss  Lake  dwell- 
ings, consisting  of  a  fine  series  of  ornaments,  utensils,  bronze,  bones, 
stones,  etc.,  presented  by  Vice-President  Ryerson  ;  over  3,000  objects 
illustrating  the  archaeology  and  ethnology  of  the  Hopi,  being  the 
result  of  the  four  Stanley  McCormick  expeditions  ;  and  a  collection 
of  2,000  ethnological  specimens  from  various  tribes  in  the  western 
states,  acquired  by  the  Museum  expeditions.  The  purchase  of  the 
Patterson  herbarium  containing  30,000  specimens  of  North  American 
plants  was  a  most  noteworthy  contribution  to  the  Department  of 
Botany.  A  series  of  selected  duplicates  containing  1,018  specimens, 
representing  the  collections  of  Miss  Eastwood  in  California  and 
Colorado,  was  also  a  highly  prized  addition.  The  sets  of  plants 
newly  collected  by  Messrs.  Clute,  Heller,  Poland,  Pringle  and  Rick- 
secker  were  also  purchased.  Most  of  the  accessions  in  the  Depart- 
ment of  Zoology  were  secured  by  the  Museum's  collector  in  the  field. 
A  Canon  Diablo  meteorite,  weighing  76  pounds,  from  the  Edward  E. 
