352 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [DeC, 



Rhoads collection, numbering 4,390 entries, has been copied into the 

 regular mammal catalogue. 



Specimens have been loaned during the year to Dr. J. A. Allen 

 and Mr. A. H. Howell. 



Birds. 



A number of accessions to the local collection have been placed on 

 exhibition and much of the collection rearranged and relabelled. 

 The services of Miss Ruth Faries were secured during nine months 

 of the year and much needed clerical work was accomplished. Sev- 

 eral temporary catalogues were copied into the regular Academy 

 register, including that of the Hoopes collection, making a total of 

 some 14,000 entries. In addition new labels were prepared for all 

 the skins of the lower famihes of Passeres in the study collection, as 

 well as of the Tanagridae and most of the Fringillidse. 



The eggs in the Pennock collection and many of those in the Drown 

 collection were placed in glass-covered boxes and catalogued, while 

 many unmounted specimens of birds were converted into skin 

 specimens. 



Dr. Stone, although mainly occupied with the executive duties of 

 the Museum, revised several of the families in the study collection 

 and prepared a report on the Jewel collection of Panama birds, which 

 has been published in the Proceedings. 



The most notable accessions received during the year were the 

 Mrs. W. A. Drown collection of bird eggs and mounted birds, and 

 a collection of Colombian birds obtained by purchase. 



Dr. H. C. Oberholser, Mr. W. E. C. Todd, Mr. Edwin Ashby and 

 Mr, F. H. Kennard have made use of the collections, while specimens 

 have been loaned to Mr. Todd, Mr. C. B. Cory and Dr. C. W. Rich- 

 mond. 



Reptiles and Fishes. 



Mr. Henry W. Fowler, who has had charge of the fishes as well 

 as of the reptiles, reports that 1,783 fishes have been received during 

 the year, which have all been catalogued and labelled. He has also 

 critically identified some 400 species of fishes. These comprised 

 specimens in the Academy collection from Brazil, Panama, the West 

 Indies and Australia as well as our entire series of African fishes and 

 a collection from Samoa loaned by Capt. C. F. Silvester, from which 

 the Academy will receive duplicates. 



Two papers were published in the Proceedings on Philippine 

 fishes and on a collection received from Paraguay. Progress was 



