804 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [DeC. , 



The alcoholic material has been examined, and a large number 

 of specimens have been catalogued and systematically arranged. 



In the Department of Archaeology, J.rr. Clarence B. Moore has 

 added many valuable specimens to his collection and has personally 

 superintended their arrangement and labeling, while Miss H. N. 

 Wardle has made important progress in cataloguing the Haldeman 

 collection. 



The additions to the collections during the year have been of 

 importance, as may be seen from the appended list. Most note- 

 worthy were the valuable series of vertebrates and insects col- 

 lected in Sumatra by Mr. Alfred C. Harrison, Jr., and Dr. H. 

 M. Hiller and generously presented by them to the Academy. 

 Reports on these collections have already been published or pre- 

 pared for publication, covering the mammals, birds, reptiles and 

 fishes. 



Another important gift was a collection of 2, 000 plants from the 

 western United States received from Mr. Benjamin H. Smith, 

 while Alfred C. Harrison, Jr., Clarence B. Moore, Samuel F. 

 Houston, John Carter, Charles H. Cramp, James D. Winsor and 

 Beulah M. Rhoads, members of the Academy, have secured through 

 purchase a valuable series of birds from the Galapagos Islands. 



From its general fund the Academy has also been enabled to 

 purchase the Rhoads Collection of North American Mammals, com- 

 prising some 4,000 skins and skulls which fill an important gap in 

 the Museum, and places the mammal collection on an excellent 

 basis. 



Many valuable specimens of mammals, birds and reptiles have 

 been received during the year from the Zoological Society of Phila- 

 delphia, and Dr. H. C. Chapman has presented a beautifully pre- 

 pared set of marine invertebrates obtained from the Zoological 

 Station at Naples. 



During the spring Messrs. H. L. Viereck and J. A. G. Rehn 

 visited southern New Mexico under direction of the Academy, and 

 secured valuable collections of insects and plants and many verte- 

 brates. 



The Conservator of the William S. Vaux Collections, ]\Ir. Theo- 

 dore D. Rand, regrets that owing to illness he has not been able to 

 give as much time to his duties as heretofore. With the assistance 

 of Mr. George Vaux, Jr., such desirable specimens as came to his 



