572 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1895. 



Louisiana aud Texas in the interest of the Lea Collection, and has 

 brought back a valuable series of additions. Dr. Chamberlain has 

 also had a handsome wainscoting erected in the vestibule of the new 

 building, above which are to be placed the slabs of fossil foot-prints 

 presented by the late Dr. Isaac Lea. 



A part from the preparation and arrangement of the accessions, the 

 work in the museum during the year has been mainly confined to 

 the arranging and cataloguing of the departments of Ethnology, 

 Ornithology and Mineralogy. 



In the first department, the entire collection of human crania has 

 been consistently numbered and carefully checked off in the printed 

 catalogue of the Morton Collection, a large amount of uncatalogued 

 material systematically entered, and the whole copied into the new 

 catalogue and brought up to date. 



In the ornithological collection, over 4,000 specimens have been 

 worked over on the plans previously outlined, and many additional 

 specimens mounted. All the types have been unmounted and placed 

 in air-tight cases. For this purpose, one large additional tin case 

 has been provided, and twenty large packing cases have been pro- 

 cured for the temporary storage of duplicate specimens of large water 

 birds. Fuller particulars in this department are furnished in the 

 report of the Ornithological Section. 



In cataloguing the minerals great progress has been made, nearly 

 4,000 specimens have been entered in the catalogue, aud a large 

 portion of the remainder arranged for cataloguing. 



In the department of mollusca, a large amount of new material 

 which had accumulated has been mounted, catalogued and placed 

 in the museum, while many valuable accessions have been received 

 during the year. A large amount of work has been done on the 

 identification and rearrangement of the land mollusca. 



The taxidermist, Mr. McCadden, in addition to his work in reno- 

 vating the ornithological collection, has devoted much time to the 

 mounting and preparation of new material received during the year 

 by gift and purchase, and many valuable specimens have thus been 

 placed on exhibition, especially in the department of Mammalogy and 

 Ornithology. 



The gifts of specimens during the year have been so numerous 

 that the Curators have been unable, for want of cases, to properly 

 arrange more than a few of them for exhibition. 



