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of the Pacific have been thoroughly examined and compared with the 

 collector's original list and are now in satisfactory condition. The 

 immense amount of labor involved in this cataloguing has left but 

 little time for the preparation of printed labels, but all newly 

 acquired material placed upon exhibition has at least been tem- 

 porarily labeled. 



It is highly gratifying to be able to report that the Department 

 of Ornithology has completed the inventory of the study collection 

 which approximates 27,000 specimens. A card catalogue has been 

 prepared showing the number of specimens in each species, from 

 whence obtained, the sex, month and locality in which they were 

 taken and the case and tray in which they may be found. Five 

 hundred and eighty-four specimens, a part of the donation of the 

 United States of Colombia in 1893, have been identified, properly 

 labeled, and entered on the accession records. The bird skins 

 obtained by Mr. Breninger in Mexico to the number of 1,500 have 

 also been labeled, accessioned and incorporated in the study collection. 



In the Department of Zoology the inventory books have been 

 kept up and the records are in a satisfactory condition. Over 4,500 

 printed labels, describing the shell collection, have been substituted 

 for the written ones and about 500 new mounts have been made. 

 The collections of protozoa, sponges, corals and star-fishes have also 

 been re-labeled. 



The following table shows in detail the year's work in the 

 Museum on catalogues and inventories: 





No. of 



Total No. 



Entries 



Total No. 



Department. 



Record 



of Entries to 



during 



of Cards 





Books. 



Sept. 30, 1902. 



igoi-2. 



Written. 



Anthropology, 



22 



56,000 



10,081 



58,867 



Botany, 



49 



121,355 



20,117 



4,050 



Geology, . 



II 



30,964 



1,991 



6,000 



Library, 



I 



32,154 . 



3,882 



18,189 



Ornithology, . 



3 



13,268 



2,199 





Photography, 



4 



6,392 







Zoology, . 



20 



25,081 



1,089 



13,100 



Accessions. — Practically all of the accessions in the Department 

 of Anthropology for the year have fallen within the division of 

 Ethnology. If two purchases, both of considerable interest, are 

 excluded, all collections have been derived from field expeditions, 

 consequently they are of unusual interest and of great scientific 

 importance. The Curator made three trips to Oklahoma and one to 

 New Mexico and on these occasions was able to obtain additional 

 material which strengthened in a notable manner the collections 

 already made from the Pawnee, Osage, Arapaho, Ponca and Oto tribes 



