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carried on and any improvements deemed desirable in the text or style 

 of labels have been made. Series which have been labeled in this way 

 in full during the year include the asbestos collection, the collections of 

 Lake Superior and Manhattan Island rocks, ores of copper, zinc, iron 

 and many minor metals, the collections of concretions, stalactites, rock 

 textures, etc., the glaciated slabs and other specimens in Alcove 103 and 

 the soda collection. Many of these collections contain descriptive 

 labels which were rewritten in order that the information given might 

 be as fresh and up-to-date as possible, or improved in form. For this 

 purpose or for newly installed material 6 5 descriptive labels were written 

 during the year. Newly installed material was provided with labels as 

 fast as received during the year and practically all specimens now on 

 exhibition are provided with labels of the latest Museum pattern. New 

 series labeled during the year include the graphite collection, several 

 series illustrating uses of metals, a series of Patagonian fossils, of mis- 

 cellaneous fossil mammals and a large number of invertebrate fossils. 

 The series of blast furnace models, Hall 34, was also supplied with fully 

 descriptive labels. The total number of labels prepared during the year 

 was 3,215, of which 2,902 were printed and installed. 



The Curator of Zoology reports that cataloguing has proceeded in 

 this Department as usual and all accessions received during the year 

 have been properly entered. In the classified card catalogue much 

 progress has been made both in Ornithology and Mammalogy. Cata- 

 logue cards to the number of 350 have been written for mammals which 

 represent more than 1,000 entries. For birds 400 cards have been 

 written and 22 distribution maps have been labeled, the former num- 

 bering 1,200 enterics. The card check list of the specimens of South 

 American mammals has been increased to approximately 800 cards. 

 New labels were provided for the serial collection of exotic birds. The 

 Costa Rican collection of fishes obtained by Assistant Curator Meek has 

 been partially catalogued. 



The year's work in the Museum on catalogues and inventories is 

 shown in detail below : 





No. of 



Total No. 



Entries 



Total No. 





Record 



of Entries to 



During 



of Cards 





Books 



Dec. 31, 1913 



1913 



Written 



Department of Anthropology . 



36 



126,530 



3,000 



130,781 



Department of Botany . 



57 



404.965 



41,781 



40,711 



Department of Geology 



21 



128,036 



4,020 



7.659 



Department of Zoology . 



40 



91.905 



2,975 



30,034 



The Library 



14 



95.865 



1,054 



164,692 



Section of Photography . 



10 



107,268 



5.714 





ACCESSIONS. — The most important accessions of the year in the 

 Department of Anthropology were those resulting from the Joseph N. 



