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prepared and placed on sale at the Museum for the use of visitors. 



In the Geological Department the careful scientific labeling of 

 the European Collection has been finished, and the same improve- 

 ment extended through the Utica Slate and Hudson River for- 

 mations of the American Series. Dr. Robert H. Lamborn has 

 presented the cast of a very interesting and complete fossil mam- 

 mal from the Eocene beds of Wyoming. 



Two very attractive specimens of Agatized Wood from Arizona 

 have been added to the Collection of Minerals. 



The labeling and re-arranging of the Jay Collection of Shells 

 presented by the late Miss Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, which has 

 been in progress during the past four years, is now completed. 



An enlarged guide to the Geological Hall, containing many new 

 illustrations, has been issued during the past year. 



The Library has received 300 volumes during the year. The 

 total accessions since the last report being 830 volumes, 949 num- 

 bers and parts, and 297 pamphlets. In addition to a large number 

 of maps, atlases, and photographs, our library now contains 6,893 

 bound volumes, 1,940 unbound volumes, 4,618 numbers, and 

 5,555 pamphlets of leading scientific works. 



The Museum has to record the decease of our Curator of 

 Marine Zoology, Dr. J. B. Holder, who joined the Museum early in 

 the year 187 1, and was connected with the institution until his death. 

 We desire to express our appreciation of his integrity, cultivated 

 bearing, and his untiring devotion to the welfare of our interests 

 for so many years. 



The attendance at the Museum upon the illustrated lectures de- 

 livered by Prof. Bickmore has crowded the present hall on every 

 clear day, and has attracted general attention throughout the city 

 and State. The importance of this work has led the educational 

 authorities of Pennsylvania to ask the Museum to aid them in es- 

 tablishing a similar system in their State. 



In the early part of last month the Commissioners of Education 

 of the State held their 34th annual meeting at the Museum, thus 

 recognizing ours as one of the prominent educational institutions of 

 this Commonwealth. The Convention heartily expressed their 

 gratification at the extent and value of our present collections, and 

 their confident belief in the growth and importance of what the 

 Museum is destined to accomplish in promoting the education of 



