Jan., 191 1. Annual Report of the Director. 



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Magyar Termeszettu-domanyi Tarsulat, Budapest, Hungary; Institut 

 de Botanique de L'Universite, Geneve, Switzerland; India Archaeo- 

 logical Survey, Calcutta; Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein fiir Schles- 

 wig-Holstein, Kiel; Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Falmouth, 

 England; Kungl. Vetenskaps Societeten, Upsala, Sweden. 



The list of accessions will also show gifts that are useful additions 

 to the library. The work of correcting duplicate call numbers and 

 cataloguing accessions received in the early years of the library was 

 continued during the year. There were sent to and returned from the 

 Newberry Bindery 876 books, periodicals, and publications of learned 

 societies. For the several card catalogues 19,662 cards were written 

 and filed. Twelve installments of the John Crerar Library cards were 

 received, but were only partly distributed owing to the crowded con- 

 dition of the card cabinets. The two units or sections of the steel 

 cabinet received in the beginning of the year have proven entirely 

 satisfactory. A sufficient number of cards had accumulated, however, 

 to more than fill these sections before they were received. 



Departmental Cataloguing, Inventorying, and Labeling. — The Curator of 

 Anthropology reports 1,625 catalogue cards written and recorded in the 

 Department inventory, numbering 33 volumes. The most important 

 collections catalogued have been those from the Banawi and Igorot 

 tribes, secured by S. C. Simms on the 4th R. F. Cummings Philippine 

 Expedition; the Ilongot collection (partially) from Northeastern Luzon, 

 made by the late Dr. William Jones; and the Etrurian archaeology col- 

 lected by Mr. E. E. Ayer. The classified tribal lists have been added 

 to, and the card catalogue for the same has been kept up. The work 

 of labeling has gone on at about the same pace as during 1909, 3,755 

 standard black labels of various sizes were printed for the Department, 

 of which 2,030 were for Northwest Coast Halls, 1,575 for the East Court, 

 85 for the Egyptian Hall, and 66 for California Hall. 



The cataloguing of the specimens received in the Department of 

 Botany has been kept up to date. The entry books of the Department 

 number 56, in these 297,810 specimens have so far been catalogued, 

 29,589 of which were entered during the past year. The cataloguing 

 of herbarium specimens progressed satisfactorily throughout the year. 

 Besides organizing the current accessions the Wahlstedt herbarium, 

 consisting of 17,555 specimens, has been completed; 2,025 sheets have 

 been added from the Rothrock herbarium, and 5,250 from that of the 

 University of Chicago. About 3,000 cards have been written and 

 added to the indices of the Department and the index books of the 

 collections kept up to date. 



