Record. xii 
During the year the following donations to the library were 
received: 
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg—Memorial volume of Celebration 
in 1907. 
Dr. Edward Evers—20 volumes of the Proceedings of the Amer- 
ican Association for the Advancement of Science, and 10 volumes of 
Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau. 
Professor A. S. Langsdorf—12 volumes of Science. 
Mr. E. P. Olshausen—6 volumes of scientific books. 
Dr. Enno Sander—Copies of Science and medical journals. 
105 volumes and 124 numbers from various scientific societies to 
complete sets in the Academy library. 
A minute of the meetings of the committee from the various 
scientific institutions in the city, appointed to devise some plan for 
more effective co-operation in the accumulation of scientific, literature 
will be found in the Record. (Page xxxiii, xxxv). 
Curator’s REpPoRT. 
The Curator reported the following gifts to the Museum: 
Julius Hurter—Mineralogical specimens from the Petrified For- 
est of Arizona. 
Frank Springer—47 crinoids comprising 20 specimens from Craw- 
fordsville, Ind. 
C. M. Woodward—Fine specimens of copper from Calumet, Mich., 
taken from native rock 4,600 feet down in mine No. 3, Tamarack Mine. 
Mary J. Klem—Fossil wood from El Paso, Tex. bee 
Royal Society of London—Three photo-engravings of the late 
Lord Kelvin. 
G. Hambach—Four pictures of western scenery. 
Report oF THE EXNToMOLOGICAL SECTION. 
St. Louis, Jan. 4, 1909. 
The Academy of Science of St. Louis: 
Gentlemen— 
I herewith beg leave to report that the Entomological Section 
of the Academy held its first regular meeting in the Academy Build- 
ing Dec. 4, 1909. Professor J. F. Abbott was elected Chairman, and 
Mr. Herman Schwarz, Secretary, for the year 1909. 
The consensus of opinion was that an effort must be made to 
secure for the museum a good collection of local insects, and in order 
to carry out this purpose, the section was divided into four parts, 
each to work in a specified group. 
