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pared specifications for the various contracts involving repairs and altera- 

 tions to the house, including the electrical, masonry, painting and papering, 

 carpentry, and iron work, and supervised the execution of these contracts. 

 He also prepared a set of plans of the house, on which was plotted the 

 position of all furniture, thus facilitating the work of removal. During 

 the summer the curator-in-chief made a number of field trips in the imme- 

 diate vicinity, securing a considerable amount of material for the study 

 collections and for use in exchange. 



The assistant curator was at first chiefly employed in packing the collec- 

 tions for transfer from Borough Hall and later in arranging the exhibits 

 in the hall of local biology. The excellent mounting of the Tuttle maps 

 and the attractive display of the local bird bulletin, with its dates of 

 arrivals and nesting places, are also the work of Mr. Cleaves. He has 

 more recently been engaged in listing and arranging the collection of 

 reptiles and batrachians. Mention should also be made of six lectures on 

 birds given by ]\Ir. Cleaves at various schools. These lectures, being 

 mostly in the regular Board of Education series, have been well attended, 

 and have afforded an excellent opportunity for advertising the museum 

 and its work. 



The museum assistant has continued the work of cataloguing the collec- 

 tions. She reports a total of 5,495 cards completed during the year, dis- 

 tributed as follows: Zoology 607, botany 3,661, geology 7, archeology i, 

 species catalogue 1,080, donor catalogue 139. 1,208 cards have been 

 stamped for the catalogue, 408 pamphlets stamped and filed, and 167 exhi- 

 bition labels written. In addition the museum assistant has not only had 

 an increasing amount of clerical work in the museum but has performed 

 many services of this kind for the officers of the Association. She also 

 packed many of the more delicate specimens for transfer and has rear- 

 ranged most of the books in the library. As the museum assistant is 

 now regularly in charge of the second floor, much of her time is devoted 

 to guard duty, especially in the afternoons. 



The janitor and the museum guard have been efficient in their work 

 and earnest in their devotion to the interests of the museum. 



Mr. Davis, honorary curator of zoology, has helped us, as heretofore, 

 with his kindly counsel and with many specimens for the collections. He 

 furnished the material for the exhibit showing the life history of the 

 periodical cicada, all being of the brood of 1894. He has also presented 

 the set of violets prepared and determined by Professor Ezra Brainerd, 

 the great authority on this group, thereby enabling our museum to retain 

 its proud position as the owner of the third best collection of violets in 

 the country. Mr. Davis bought and presented to the Association the 

 laurels and rhododendrons now planted in front of the Museum ; and he 

 has recently added still further to his gifts by offering to start a subscrip- 

 tion for the needed binding of books in our library with the sum of $25. 



The honorary curator of geology. Dr. Hollick, reports that the only 



