Report of the President. 2 3 



A special photographic dark room has been fitted up for the 

 Department, and, at the expense of the Curator, a very beautiful 

 series of photographs have been taken by Mr. Anderson of some 

 of the finer specimens in the collection ; also of some of Knight's 

 restorations of the extinct vertebrates. It is proposed to publish 

 these restorations, together with the photographs of the complete 

 •mounted skeletons upon which they are based. 



The work of cataloguing has proceeded steadily, Dr. Matthew 

 taking charge of the mammals. Dr. Hay has taken charge of the 

 reptiles, but has given some time to the mammals. All of our 

 collections except the Patagonian collection and the second Cope 

 collection are now catalogued. In the work of cataloguing the 

 Dinosaurs, Mr. Granger and Mr. Thompson have rendered valu- 

 able assistance. 



Professor Osborn went abroad partly in the interests of the 

 Department and represented the Museum at the Geological Con- 

 gress in Paris. Dr. Matthew was given a leave of absence for 

 quite an extensive tour of the foreign museums, during which he 

 made many valuable notes and observations. 



After a number of experiments a permanent method of mount- 

 ing the small specimens in attractive form with the use of fixed 

 color cards has been adopted. Dr. Matthew and Mr. Thompson 

 have made considerable progress in this work. 



Department of Entomology. — During the past year con- 

 siderable progress has been made in the arrangement of the study 

 collection of Coleoptera, and a large number of specimens have 

 also been placed on exhibition. One hundred enlarged drawings 

 of minute beetles have been made, and are ready for exhibition 

 cases. 



The Very Rev. E. A. Hoffman has generously donated 1,000 

 specimens of butterflies from North and South America and Asia. 

 These will be placed on exhibition as soon as the cases can be 

 provided. The entire collection of butterflies presented by Dr. 

 Hoffman now aggregates over 5,000 specimens. 



About 800 specimens of local Hymenopte'ra have been placed 

 on exhibition. 



