846 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [DcC, 



Mr. Stone, with the assistance of the Jessup students, has rearranged 

 the entire series of reptiles and batrachians, reUeving their overcrowded 

 condition, and has labelled and tagged with metal numbers the entire 

 series of Garter Snakes, as well as all recent accessions. Twelve 

 thousand metal tags have been prepared and the work of tagging the 

 whole collection will be pushed as rapidly as possible. 



Miss H. N. Wardle has been constantly engaged in labelling, cata- 

 loguing and arranging the archaeological collections, rendering them 

 much more instructive to the student and visitor. 



The preparator, Mr. McCadden, has mounted a number of mammals, 

 notably an African Buffalo, and has prepared many specimens for the 

 study collections. 



Besides the services rendered by the Museiun staff and the students 

 of the Jessup Fund, the Curators are indebted to Dr. Philip P. Calvert, 

 Mr. Erich Daecke, Mr. H. W. Wenzel, Mr. H. L.Viercck and Mr. E. T. 

 Cresson, Jr., for assistance in the Entomological department. 



The Anti-Tuberculosis Society, Philadelphia Botanical Club, Nomen- 

 clature Committee Botanical Club A. A. A. S., Mycological Club, 

 Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, Pennsylvania Audubon Society 

 and Delaw^are Valley Naturalists' Union have held meetings in the 

 Academy building during the year. 



The collections have been extensively studied by visiting specialists, 

 while material has been loaned to the following: Robert Ridgway, 

 H. C. Oberholser, G. S. Miller, Jr., E. B. Williamson, O. P. Hay, C. F. 

 Sands, T. H. Montgomery, Jr., E. S. Steele, W. B. Scott, Florence 

 Bascom, W. E. Meehan, James H. Lambert, J. F. Holt, C. V. Piper, 

 E. L. Morris, W. B. Clarke, Paul Bartsch, J. W. Harshberger, Lawrence 

 Bruner, H. W. Fowler, J. A. Allen and A. E. Ortman. 



Samuel G. Dixon, 



Curator. 



Report of the Special Curator of the Department of Mollusca, 



The accessions to the collection of mollusks during 1904 have ex- 

 ceeded in number those of any year since the reception of the A. D. 

 Brown collection in 1S87. Specimens have been received from 78 

 sources, the most valuable or extensive being the following: 



A series of 330 lots of shells from the keys and adjacent mainland of 

 Florida, from Mr. Clarence B. Moore, part collected by his own party, 

 part by others sent by him to collect mollusks. This is by far 

 the most extensive series of mollusks ever obtained on the Florida 



