Vol. V] GRUNSKY— PRESIDENT'S REPORT FOR 1914 9 



Indian baskets and stone implements, which latter will be 

 placed in the new building and properly displayed without 

 cost to the Academy, 



But the time is ripe for a proper and adequate endowment 

 for the work which the Academy has in hand. There is im- 

 mediate need for a fund of about $1,000,000 to enlarge the 

 new building in the Park to its intended ultimate dimensions 

 and to provide for a proper display of the material which is 

 available in abundance, and which will quickly find its way 

 to such a building when it becomes known that attractive 

 housing facilities have been provided. 



A commission which the Curator of the Department of 

 Botany, Miss Alice Eastwood, received, to make a study and 

 collection of willows in Alaska, resulted in a trip by her last 

 spring of which she has given an interesting account at one 

 of the stated meetings, A large addition of Alaskan flora 

 to the Herbarium of the Academy, is to be noted in this con- 

 nection. 



The Curator of the Department of Invertebrate Paleon- 

 tology, Mr. F. M. Anderson, is at present away on a year's 

 leave of absence in South America on private business and has 

 taken with him Mr. Bruce Martin. His stay in South Amer- 

 ica will no doubt result in benefit to the Academy's collections 

 as he has requested and is receiving some financial aid in 

 making collections for the Academy. 



The place made vacant by the resignation of the Assistant 

 Curator, Mr. Bruce Martin, has been filled by the appointment 

 of Dr. Roy E. Dickerson. 



Death has claimed Mr. Chas. Fuchs who was for many- 

 years Assistant Curator and an able worker and diligent col- 

 lector in the Department of Entomology. The private col- 

 lection of Mr. Fuchs has been added to the Museum where it 

 is being stored and cared for until otherwise disposed of. In 

 his death the Academy has sustained a distinct loss. No one 

 has yet been appointed to take his place. 



The preparation of material for display exhibits has been 

 continued throughout the year and it is along this line — meas- 

 ured by the cost of the work — that the Academy has been most 

 active. This will appear more fully in the report of the 

 Director. 



