710 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [DeC.^ 



L. Bates, and four hundred and fifty specimens from Santa Marta^ 

 Colombia. These added many species not heretofore represented. 



The Delaware Valley Ornithological Club and Pennsylvania 

 Audubon Society have held their meetings regularly at the Academy 

 and have done much to stimulate interest in the department, while 

 numerous ornithologists from other institutions have made use of 

 the collections. 



At the annual meeting of the Section, held December 4, 1913, the 

 following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 



Director Spencer Trotter, M.D. 



Vice-Director George Spencer Morris. 



Recorder Stewardson Brown. 



Secretary William A. Shryock. 



Treasurer and Conservator Witmer Stone. 



WiTMER Stone, 



Conservator. 



The annual election of Officers, Councillors, and Members of the 

 Committee on Accounts was held December 16, with the following 

 result: 



President Samuel G. Dixon, M.D., LL.D. 



Vice-Presidents Edwin G. Conklin, Ph.D., Sc.D. 



John Cadwalader, A.M. 



Recording Secretary Edward J. Nolan, M.D. 



Corresponding Secretary J. Percy Moore, Ph.D. 



Treasurer George Vaux, Jr. 



Librarian Edward J. Nolan, M.D. 



Curators Samuel G. Dixon, M.D., LL.D., 



Henry A. Pilsbry, Sc.D., 

 Witmer Stone, A.M., Sc.D., 

 Henry Tucker, M.D. 



Councillors to serve three YEARS.Edwin S. Dixon, 



Henry Skinner, M.D., 

 Robert G. LeConte, M.D., 

 George Spencer Morris. 



Committee on Accounts Charles Morris, 



Samuel N. Rhoads, 

 John G. Rothermel, 

 Thomas S. Stewart, M.D., 

 Walter Horstman. 



