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logical and zoological collections and the library are more recent addi- 

 tions, and are not yet fully developed. 



Financial Support. The museum is supported entirely by the 

 owner, who has provided for its permanent maintenance a fund yield- 

 ing an annual income of $12,000, and has also made it his residuary 

 legatee. 



Building. Three buildings have been erected, in 1867, 1888, and 

 iooi, at a total cost of $27,000: these afford 25,250 square feet of 

 floor space for exhibition, and about 1000 for offices, workrooms, etc. 



Administration. By the owner. 



Library. 3000-4000 volumes on science, art, history, and liter- 

 ature. 



Attendance. Open free to the public on week-days from 9 to 4. 



NORRISTOWN: 



HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 



The society maintains a small museum of local historical relics. 



PHILADELPHIA: 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. (Logan Square.) 



Staff. Officers: President, Samuel G. Dixon; Vice-presidents, 

 Arthur Erwin Brown, Edwin G. Conklin; Corresponding secretary, J. 

 Percy Moore; Recording secretary and librarian, Edward J. Nolan; 

 Treasurer, George Vaux, Jr. ; Board of curators, Samuel G.Dixon, Arthur 

 Erwin Brown, Henry A. Pilsbry, Witmer Stone. Salaried Staff: 

 Curators, Henry A. Pilsbry, Witmer Stone; Assistants, Henry Skinner, 

 Stewardson Brown, Henry W. Fowler, Edw. G. Yanatta, J. Percy 

 Moore, James A. G. Rehn; Preparator, David McCadden; Assistant 

 librarian, Wm. J. Fox; Aides, Ada Allen (herbarium), E. T. Cresson, Jr. 

 (entomology) ; Harriet N. Wardle (library). The officers and 12 coun- 

 cilors constitute the council of the academy and transact its business. 

 The board of curators has immediate charge of the museum. 



Axthropolog'y. Uncivilized peoples, 21,500. This collection 

 includes the Morton collection of 1100 crania, the Clarence B. Moore 

 collection from the Indian mounds of Georgia and Florida, the col- 

 lection of the Peary relief expedition from Greenland, and the Halde- 

 man remains of North American Indians and native tribes of British 

 Guiana. 



Botany. Cryptogamic herbarium, 50,000, including ioo± types 

 and figured specimens; Phanerogamic herbarium, 604,000, including 

 a large number of types and figured specimens. Among special col- 



