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of Instruction, has been added to the library during the year. 

 It consists of a collection of lantern slides, for the purpose of 

 lecture illustration. Those now in the possession of the Academy 

 have been derived from the following sources : John G. Meigs' be- 

 quest 135, Prof. Alfred Bickmore 100, Dr. Benjamin Sharp 45, 

 Prof. E. D. Cope 26, Dr. H. Skinner 16, and Prof. D. G. Elliot 4. 

 The collection has been classified and catalogued by Dr. Sharp and 

 is now ready for use. 



Acknowledgment is again due Mr. Wm. J. Fox for the faithful 

 and intelligent discharge of his duties as assistant to the Librarian 

 during the past year. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



Edward J. Nolan, 



Librarian. 



REPORT OF THE CURATORS, 



The Curators report that the various collections in their charge 

 are in a still more satisfactory state of preservation than at the 

 time of their last annual report, while great progress has been 

 made during the year in the rearrangement and cataloguing of 

 the several departments and many valuable additions have been 

 received. 



Although the first floor of the new museum building is practi- 

 cally ready for exhibition, it has not yet been thrown open to the 

 public, as the work of arranging and labelling, which yet remains 

 to be done, would be very much hindered thereby. Mr. Clarence 

 B. Moore has presented three additional cases for the display of 

 the rich additions he has made to the Moore Archaeological Col- 

 lection, and his collections from the Florida Indian mounds and a 

 series of aboriginal pottery specimens from the mounds of Ohio and 

 Tennessee have been arranged in them. A large (day altar from 

 Ohio has been mounted in a special case, and several maps and 

 photographs, illustrating the collection, have been placed upon the 

 walls. 



The Professor of Ethnology and Archaeology having been un- 

 able to devote any time to the arrangement of the collection in his 

 department, Professor Putnam, of the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, 



