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

 below. 





No. of 

 Record 

 Books. 



Total No. of 



Entries to 

 Dec. 31. 1910. 



Entries 

 during 

 1910. 



Total No. 

 of Cards 

 Written. 



Department of Anthropology 



33 



114,280 



1,272 



114,653 



Department of Botany 



56 



297,810 



29,589 





Department of Geology . 



20 



112,495 



9,414 



6,763 



Department of Zoology . 



40 



87,830 



5,624 



28,718 



The Library 



13 



80,037 



8,000 



109,962 



Section of Photography . 



6 



87,139 



6,377 





ACCESSIONS. — Most of the accessions acquired during the year by the 

 Department of Anthropology were gifts. Through Mr. R. F. Cummings 

 more than 4,000 ethnological specimens from Igorot and Ilongot tribes 

 of Northern Luzon, the Negrito of Bataan and the Bukidnon and 

 Bagobo of Mindanao, were added to the PhiHppine collections. Full 

 notes, photographs, and measurements accompany the collections. Mr. 

 Barbour Lathrop, of Chicago, presented a magnificent royal sarong col- 

 lected by himself in Jokjokartar, Java. Mr. T. A. Hagerty donated a 

 bronze figurine of the Goddess Isis; Mr. E. E. Ayer, an Etruscan jar. 

 A collection of spears, arrows, knives, etc., from Congo and the Soudan; 

 Etruscan burial urns of terra cotta and alabaster, as well as vases of 

 terra cotta, and gold and silver jewelry from Kabyle tribes of Algeria, 

 Africa, was presented by Mr. Stanley Field, Mr. Edward E. Ayer, Mr. 

 Watson F. Blair, Mr. George Manierre, Mr. George F. Porter and 

 Mr. Richard T. Crane, Jr. Through Mr. William J. Chalmers and 

 Mr. Byron L. Smith, the Illinois arch^ological material was increased 

 by the W. R. Head Collection. Mr. Homer E. Sargent enriched the 

 Salish collections by the addition of 75 specimens, collected by J. A. 

 Teit. The gift comprises baskets, bags, matting, clothing, cradles, 

 necklaces, robes, pipes, toys, spears, stone implements, shields, etc. 

 From Dr. Seemeyer of the National Ethnological Museum, Budapest, 

 was obtained, by exchange, a lot of photographs illustrating the 

 physical types and home life of the different peoples of Hungary. Of 

 the purchased accessions of special interest and great value in the 

 study of Belgian archaeology is the collection of 725 objects purchased 

 from Baron Alfred de Loe of Brussels. This collection represents 

 material from flint quarries and workshops, casts of objects of the 

 Bronze and Iron Ages, pottery of the Belgian-Roman Epoch, and a 

 number of originals of the Frank Epoch. Twenty Navaho ceremonial 

 masks were secured from J. L. Hubbell of Ganado, Arizona. Museum 

 funds in the hands of Alfred R. Brown brought together a collection 



