Annual Reports 95 



We are also receiving, as issued, the topographic maps of Staten Island, 

 through the courtesy of Borough President Cromwell. 

 The following is a tabulated list of accessions: 



Accessions to the Musriini and Library during igog>-igio 



Department of Zoology 



Insects 4039 



Shells 1463 



Other invertebrates 226 



Reptiles and batrachians 12 



Birds, nests, and eggs 50 



^liscellaneous 81 



5871 5871 

 Department of Botany 1097 



Department of Geology and Mineralogy 66 



Department of Arts and Antiquities 37 



Department of Archeology and Anthropology 75 



Department of Books and Maps 192 



^liscellaneous 32 



Total number of specimens received 73/0 



Total number of accessions 92, of which 63 represent gifts, 23 exchanges, 

 and 6 w-ere collected especially for the museum. 



Museum Staff 



The curator-in-chief has been very fully occupied during the year with 

 administrative and routine duties, mounting and caring for specimens, 

 planning and arranging the exhibits, etc. During the summer a number 

 of days were spent in the field collecting material in various groups, and 

 for a period of four weeks, in July arid August, under authorization from 

 the Board, the curator-in-chief made a collecting tour in North Carolina. 



The museum assistant, in addition to her clerical duties in addressing 

 envelopes and writing letters and labels, etc., and the routine work of 

 entering and filing periodicals and supervising the museum during public 

 hours, has been engaged on the museum catalog, which has made excel- 

 lent progress. 



Mr. William T. Davis, honorary curator of zoology, prepared the cases 

 of native insects for the special Hudson-Fulton exhibit. His assistant, 

 Mr. James Chapin, is still in Africa, engaged in field work for the Amer- 

 ican Museum. 



Dr. Philip Dowell. honorary curator in botany, made a study of the 

 violets in the herbarium, in connection with an extensive study of the 

 genus published in the April issue of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botan- 

 ical Club. 



