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■ might be enlarged to great advantage in its facilities and number of 

 employees. The following figures show the number of impressions in 

 the way of label printing and other impressions : 



Department. Labels. Other Impressions. 



Anthropology, . 322 6,500 



Botany, . . '. . . . • . .. . . 1,288 24,550 



Geology, 4,990 



Zoology, . . • . • .' ■ . • . . . . . 1,225 18,750 



Director's Office, • . • . ■ . ■ . . 6 50,783 



Library, . . . • 7,400 



Photography and Illustration. — Unusual activity marked the pro- 

 gress in this important division. The addition of a complete photo- 

 gravure plant must be considered an enterprising step, enabling the 

 series of publications now to be illustrated by this very satisfactory 

 process. The suggestion that each Curator be provided with an 

 album, containing a print of every negative made for his department, 

 has materialized, thus facilitating the location of each negative in 

 the possession of the Museum, a far more satisfactory system than a 

 written record, where descriptions are often misleading. These 

 albums now number twenty-two, and contain over seven thousand 

 prints. Over fifteen hundred negatives, made in the field, were de- 

 veloped ; one thousand lantern slides and six hundred skull negatives 

 indicate, to a limited extent, the busy year of this division. 



Attendance. — It is highly gratifying to report an increase in 

 the total attendance for the year of 32,714. In fact, the figures for 

 the year just closed show that more visitors viewed the collections 

 than in any previous 3^ear except the first, an impressive indication 

 intimating that the Museum is growing in serious regard, as well as in 

 popular favor. An analysis of the attendance during the entire year 

 appears in another portion of this report. The following is a list of 

 the school classes (thirty pupils or more), that visited the Museum 

 during the year. 



LIST OF CLASSES. 



Schools and Location. Teachers Pupils. 



Sherwood — Princeton avc. and Fifty-seventh st., . . . 5 67 



Yale — Yale ave. and Seventieth st., i 41 



Riverside High School — Riverside, 111., ..... i 51 



River Forest — River Forest, 111., i 30 



F. W. Parker — Webster ave. and N. Clark st., ... 4 30 



Bryant — S. Forty-first ave. and W. Thirteenth st., . . i 39 



Medill— W. Fourteenth pi. and W. Throop st., . . . 2 42 



Bryant — S. Forty-first ave. and W. Thirteenth st., . . i 41 



Kershaw — Union ave. and W. Sixty-fonrth st., . . 2 41 



