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Rh its arrival with date. The headings of the spaces in this book may be arranged as follows:

The numbers in this book are consecutive during any one year. And right here let it be stated that there is no one thing which causes more inconvenience and difficulty in bookkeeping than having the beginning of the fiscal year come at some other time than at the beginning of the calendar year. For in all the systems of numbering in use in museums, the year of acquisition is always used in conjunction with the running accessions number, and to figure exactly how many objects had been received from October 1st to October 1st is always inconvenient and confusing, whereas from January 1st to January 1st the last number itself tells.

Any object which is loaned to the museum for exhibition purposes is entered in this book. An object sent in for examination only should be