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of eggs and bird skins was to be transferred by them to the 

 Academy. This is now an accomph'shed fact and the collection 

 has been made the property of the Academy. I repeat the 

 Academy's thanks for this exceptionally valuable addition to its 

 research material. The attractions of the Academy and the 

 opportunity which it affords for study have proved so alluring 

 to Mr. Joseph Mailliard that it has been possible to induce him 

 to take the honorary curatorship of the Academy's department 

 of Ornithology. 



Dr. Roy E. Dickerson has been compelled by important de- 

 mands on his time to sever his active connection with the de- 

 partment of Invertebrate Paleontology, but has been retained 

 as honorary curator and Dr. G. Dallas Hanna was made curator 

 and has been active in that capacity during the last months of 

 the year. 



The activities of the several departments in which the scien- 

 tific work of the Academy received attention, are fully set forth 

 in the report of the Director of the Museum, Dr. Barton War- 

 ren Evermann, and in the reports of the curators. It will be 

 noted from these reports that much valuable work has been 

 done and that the studies afield have extended in some cases be- 

 yond the limits of the state. 



May I not suggest in closing, that the members of the Acad- 

 emy have a right to feel that this institution is their institution 

 which they control through their officers and that a proper sense 

 of proprietorship should prompt an endeavor, as opportunity 

 offers, to enlist further financial support. The Academy should 

 be in position to assemble and house the wealth of material 

 afforded by nature in and about the shores of the Pacific Ocean 

 which is worthy of collection in such a museum, as has already 

 been well started but which remains capable of great expansion. 



Again I must thank the staff and employees of the Academy 

 for another year of faithful service. 



