" [Jan. 20, 



the Academy shall slill retain said colleclion as a loan on Ihe conditions 

 stipulated at the time of its deposit. 



"The American Philosophical Society may be assured tliat llie Poinsett 

 Collection, while in custody of the Academy, will be carefully preserved ; 

 and that as soon as the perfectly fireproof addition to the Academy's 

 building now in course of construction, under contract to be completed 

 next June, is finished, there will be ample room for a satisfactory display 

 of it as well as of similar collections. As the Museum of the Academy is 

 freely open to the public from eight to ten hours every day, except Sun- 

 day, throughout the year, it is confidently conjectured that the Poinsett 

 Collection will be visited and studied here by a greater number of persons 

 than it would be in any other place of exhibition in the city. 



"It is neither necessary nor expedient that the Academy should pro- 

 pose any condition whatever in connection with the retention of the 

 Poinsett Colleclion as a loan from the American Philosophical Society." 



The report is signed and submitted on behalf of the Curators by Dr. 

 W. S. W. Ruschenberger, the Chairman of the Board. 

 I remain, yours very truly, 



Edward J. Nolan, 

 Recording Secretary, A. N. 8., Philadelphia. 



A letter from Dr. Elliott Coues, Washington, D. C, thank- 

 ing the Society for its grant of extension of time in the Lewis 

 and Clark MSS. loan ; also, offering a paper for publication 

 in the Proceedings, descriptive of the Lewis and Clark MSS. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Maatschappij der 

 Nederlandsche Letterkunde, Leiden; Instituto Fisico Geogra- 

 fice Nacional de Costa Rica, San Jose ; Mr. William John 

 Potts, Camden, N. J. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Royal 

 Geographical Society of Australasia (Queensland Branch), Bris- 

 bane (138); Linnean Society of New South Wales (135-138), 

 Royal Society of New South Wales (136, 137), Sydney; 

 Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde, Leiden (137, 

 138) ; I. R. Accademia degli Agiati, Rovereto, Tyrol (138) ; 

 K. K. Militiir-Geographische Institut, Vienna, Austria (137, 

 138); Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Emden(138); Naturwis- 

 senschaftlicher Verein des Regierungs-Bezirks Frankfurt, 

 a. O. (135) ; Geographische Gesellschaft (137), Naturhistorische 

 Gesellschaft (138), Ilanover, Prussia ; Naturwissenschaftlicher 

 Verein, Regensburg, Bavaria (137); R. Accademia di Scienze, 



