Record. xliii 



During the year the following donations to the library were 

 received: 



Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg — Memorial volume of Celebration 

 in 1907. 



Dr. Edward Evers — 20 volumes of the Proceedings of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Science, and 10 volumes of 

 Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau. 



Professor A. S. Langsdorf — 12 volumes of Science. 



Mr. E. P. Olshausen — 6 volumes of scientific books. 



Dr. Enno Sander — Copies of Science and medical journals. 



105 volumes and 124 numbers from various scientific societies to 

 complete sets in the Academy library. 



A minute of the meetings of the committee from the various 

 scientific institutions in the city, appointed to devise some plan for 

 more effective co-operation in the accumulation of scientific literature 

 will be found in the Record. (Page xxxiii, xxxv). 



Curator's Eeport. 



The Curator reported the following gifts to the Museum: 



Julius Hurter — Mineralogical specimens from the Petrified For- 

 est of Arizona. 



Frank Springer — 47 crinoids comprising 20 specimens from Craw- 

 fordsville, Ind. 



C. M. Woodward — Fine specimens of copper from Calumet, Mich., 

 taken from native rock 4,600 feet down in mine No. 3, Tamarack Mine. 



Mary J. Klem — Fossil wood from El Paso, Tex. 



Royal Society of London — Three photo-engravings of the late 

 Lord Kelvin. 



G. Hambach — Four pictures of western scenery. 



Eepokt of the Entomological Section. 



St. Louis, Jan. 4, 1909. 

 The Academy of Science of St. Louis: 



Gentlemen — 



I herewith beg leave to report that the Entomological Section 

 of the Academy held its first regular meeting in the Academy Build- 

 ing Dec. 4, 1909. Professor J. F. Abbott was elected Chairman, and 

 Mr. Herman Schwarz, Secretary, for the year 1909. 



The consensus of opinion was that an effort must be made to 

 secure for the museum a good collection of local insects, and in order 

 to carry out this purpose, the section was divided into four parts, 

 each to work in a specified group. 



