632 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [DeC, 



During the early part of the year much time was spent in moving 

 cases and rearranging exhibits preparatory to the alterations, and since 

 July 5 the Museum has been closed to the public, the cases being 

 covered up and many specimens removed for safety. 



During the past month the cases on the first and second floors have 

 been rearranged preparatory to reopening the'^Museum, and the work of 

 reconstructing some of the bird cases is well under way. 



Many shifts of position among the exliibition cases have been made 

 necessary by the changes in doors and stairways and the walling off of 

 the vestibule. 



The final cleansing of the halls will be undertaken as soon as the 

 painting of the walls and fire-proofing of the columns are completed. 



Early in the year the work of labelling the mounted birds was com- 

 pleted with the exception of the song birds, and the exhibition collec- 

 tion of Mollusca was entirely rearranged. Many of the articulated 

 skeletons have also beto cleansed and remounted. 



Owing to the condition of the Museiun, however, most of the work 

 of the staff has been devoted to the study collections. 



The old rooms of the Ornithological department having been largely 

 torn away, the entire series of bird and mammal skins has been re- 

 moved to the top floor of the Museum, where far more desirable quar- 

 ters have been provided. 



Thirty-eight moth-proof metal cases and ten large white pine cabi- 

 nets have been provided for plants, insects and birds, as well as 200 

 standard insect boxes. 



Mr. Clarence B. Moore has presented another plate glass and mahog- 

 any case for the valuable additions to his collection of Indian 

 antiquities obtained in the Southern States and Arkansas. Dr. 

 Pilsbry and Mr. Rehn each visited North Carolina for a few weeks 

 during the year and made collections respectively of Mollusks and 

 Orthoptera. 



Through the Hberality of Mrs. Charles Schaffer, Mr. Stewardson 

 Brown was enabled to spend the entire summer in little known parts of 

 British Columbia, where he secured a valuable collection of plants 

 largely ne"^ to the herbarium. He also visited Bermuda in February, 

 with the aid of the Esther Hermann Research Fund of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences, where another important collection was made. 



Dr. J. P. Moore spent the summer at Woods Hole, where some 

 marine material was collected and numerous local collecting trips were 

 made by other members of the Museum staff. 



Among the important accessions of the year may be mentioned the 



