1895.] NATURAL, SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 577 



With the assistance of Mr. E. G. Vanatta, who has recently 

 been appointed on the Jessup Fund, the Conservator has made good 

 progress toward labelling and cataloguing specimens which have 

 accumulated during the past few years; and, with the same efficient 

 help, it is believed that all arrears of work on material of this 

 nature will be completed during the winter. 



The Conservator has been chiefly occupied in the preparation 

 of the several numbers of the Manual of Conchology; but no small 

 amount of time has been consumed in the work of identifying speci- 

 mens for conchologists and in correspondence on conchological sub- 

 jects. It is believed, however, that the large amount of new and 

 interesting material secured by this means repays for the labor and 

 time involved. 



H. A. PlLSBRY, 



Conservator. 



REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 



The usual monthly meetings of the Section have been held and 

 were well attended by its members and associates. Numerous verbal 

 communications of great interest entomologically have been made by 

 nearly all the members. The collections are in a good state of 

 preservation considei'ing the faulty cases in which some orders are 

 kept. These will gradually be replaced by safe dust- and pest-proof 

 receptacles. The library is growing rapidly, and during the year 

 four hundred and ninety- five entries have been made in the donation 

 book. A large number of insects have also been presented. The 

 present quarters devoted to the Section are entirely inadequate, and 

 it hopes soon to be able to occupy the new room set apart for it by 

 the Academy. Two members and two associates have been elected. 

 The journal of the Section, Entomological Neivs, has been success- 

 fully continued and three hundred and forty pages and fifteen plates 

 published during the year just closed. It will be continued in the 

 new year, and an illustrated edition of six hundred copies of thirty- 

 two pages per month will be printed. At the annual election held 



