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able works; the Museum being under special obligations for note- 

 worthy contributions to Christiana University, Stockholm ; the Natu- 

 ral History Museum, Hamburg; Cambridge University Press, England ; 

 Royal University of Upsala; Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 

 Missouri; University of Chicago; and to Messrs. Eduard Seler, Berlin, 

 and B. B. Cushman, Chicago. The annual inventory of the depart- 

 mental libraries showed that they were in a satisfactory condition. 

 In the departments of Botany and Zoology the books are much exposed 

 to the dust, but with the present accommodations this seems unavoid- 

 able. No important changes have been made in the equipment of the 

 general library. The work of revising and typewriting the author 

 catalogue has been steadily pursued during the year. This work will 

 be completed and the catalogue brought up to date in about a month. 

 Three thousand and fifty-nine cards have been added and 10,128 cards 

 revised and rewritten. Three hundred and sixty-four volumes were 

 received from the bindery. Twelve installments of the John Crerar 

 Library catalogue have been received and filed. 



Accessions. — The accessions in the Department of Anthropology, 

 as in recent years, have been very largely the result of expeditions in 

 the field by various members of the staff of the department. Assistant 

 Curator Owen secured noteworthy collections, one of which, from the 

 White Mountain Apache, consisting chiefly of ceremonial objects and 

 paraphernalia, supplements the collection already formed by Mr. Owen 

 in this tribe, and makes the combined collection one of great impor- 

 tance and scientific value. Also through Assistant Curator Owen's 

 expedition was derived a fairly comprehensive and exceedingly inter- 

 esting collection from certain of the so-called Mission Indians of south- 

 ern California. Previous to this year the department possessed but 

 scant material from this interesting region, so this collection not only 

 fills an important gap, but makes the Calif ornian collections repre- 

 sentative in a comprehensive way, of the entire state. From Assistant 

 Curator Simms was obtained an interesting collection from the Assini- 

 boins, Cree, and Ojibwa of Minnesota and Assinaboia. This region 

 up to this year had remained practically unrepresented in the collec- 

 tions, and the acquisition, therefore, marks an extenuation of territory 

 covered by collections from the Plains tribes. The Northwest Coast 

 collections have received a most valuable addition through the expe- 

 dition undertaken for the Museum by Dr. C. F. Newcombe. Dr. 

 Newcombe's work of collecting this year was largely confined to the 



