418 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1885. 



been submitted to the Council. In the department of Entomology 

 the partial services of a paid assistant, employed in joint asso- 

 ciation with the American Entomological Society, have been 

 secured. 



In departments other than those here specified the work 

 accomplished has been under the immediate direction of the 

 Curator-in-charge and his assistants who have received material 

 aid in various ways from the several Jessup Fund beneficiaries. 

 "While it is believed much has been done toward bringing the 

 collections into a relational sequence, and in the identification 

 and labeling of specimens, years of labor still remain before, 

 at the present rate of progress, the entire Museum can be brought 

 into systematic order. Nor, it appears, will the attainment of 

 this much-desired object be practicable until further and greatly- 

 increased accommodation for the proper exposition of the steadily 

 increasing collections be furnished. Reflectively, again, the 

 want of space acts as a material check to the proper development 

 of the collections, which, in the estimation of donors, can now 

 no longer be exhibited to advantage. The following extract 

 from the Report of the Professor of Ethnology and Archaeology 

 illustrates this condition: u The collections of the Academy in 

 this department are substantially the same as noted in the last 

 report. It would be easy to increase them were there ample 

 accommodations for their favorable display as objects." The 

 extensive series of rocks and fossils collected by the Second 

 Geological Survey of the State of Pennsylvania, and contained 

 in upwards of 200 cases, still remain boxed, awaiting the oppor- 

 tunity when an increase of space will permit of their classifica- 

 tion and display. 



It i> earnestly hoped that the contemplated extension, either 

 in part or in whole, of the present building, which is impera- 

 tively demanded by the needs of the institution, may be shortly 

 realized, but toward the attainment of this end assistance, other 

 than that which can be furnished by the Academy alone, is 

 necessary. The present resources of the Academy are in them- 

 selves scarcely sufficient to maintain the institution as it is now 

 situated, and much too limited to enable it to fully meet the 

 requirements of scientific investigators and investigation. A 

 Curator's fund for the liberal purchase of specimens ma\ lie 

 indicated as a growing absolute necessity, and scarcely less so a 



