ioo Report of the President 



and coloured from Nature; with their characters, synonyms, 

 and remarks on their habits and manners, by Titian R. Peale — 

 Curator of the Philadelphia Museum — Volume I, Number I, 

 printed by William P. Gibbons, S. W. Corner Sixth and Cherry 

 Streets, 1833. The present copy undoubtedly was the author's 

 personal one, as it contains a printed "Proposals" on which are 

 written the names of the various subscribers to the work. The 

 part is otherwise composed of 14 unnumbered pages and calls 

 for plates 3, 4, 5, 7. The plates present are, however, 2 to 10 

 and exist both in colored and uncolored form. There is also 

 an unnumbered and uncolored plate of Morpho iris. 



Other accessions are : The Danish Ingolf -Expedition, Vol- 

 umes 'I-VI, Copenhagen, 1899-1916; Reports on the Collec- 

 tions made by the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition 

 and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea, 1910- 

 1913, Volumes I, II, London, 1916; Voyage aux Cotes de 

 Guinee et en Amerique, par M. N., Amsterdam, 1719; Natu- 

 ral History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by 

 Mark Catesby, Volumes I, II, London, 1771 ; The Coleoptera 

 of the British Islands, by W. W. Fowler, Volumes I-VI, Lon- 

 don, 1887-1913; Rhopalocera Exotica, being Illustrations of 

 New, Rare and Unfigured Species of Butterflies, by Henley 

 Grose-Smith & W. F. Kirby, Volumes I— III, London, 1887- 

 1902; Les Insectes — Traite Elementaire d'Entomologie, by 

 Maurice Girard, Tomes I— III, et Atlas, Paris, 1873-1885 ; 

 Trachten, Haus-, Feld- und Kriegsgerdthschaften der V'olker 

 Alter und Neuer Zeit, by Friedrich Hottenroth, Bande I, II, 

 Stuttgart, 1884-1891 ; Historia de las Indias, by Bartolome 

 de Las Casas, Volumes I-V, Madrid, 1875-1876; Le Costume 

 Historique, par M. A. Racinet, Volumes I-VI, Paris, 1876- 

 1888, and hones Ornithopterorum, by Robert H. F. Rippon, 

 Volumes I, II, London, 1 898-1906. 



For the immediate future the section of the Library dealing 

 with primitive languages, magic, charms and amulets is to be 

 strengthened — the latter subjects with the assistance of Dr. W. 

 L. Hildburgh, whose experience has already proved of much 

 value. 



The constantly increasing demands which are made upon the 

 staff by the departments of the institution as well as the public 



