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all branches of zoology and botany. The bound volumes number 

 65,000, and many pamphlets and journals are still unbound. The 

 library is now housed in a new fireproof building and arranged on steel 

 stacks, while adjoining it is a commodious reading room. 



Publications. The academy haspublished a Journal of which the 

 first series of 8 volumes extended from 181 7 to 1839; the second series 

 began in 1847 an d includes 13 volumes up to 1908. The Proceedings 

 of the academy have been issued in 60 volumes from 1841 to 1908. 

 Additional publications include a manual of conchology, the Transac- 

 tions of the American Entomological Society, 1 867-1 908, and the 

 Entomological News, 1 890-1 908. 



Attendance. The museum is open free to the public on week- 

 days from 9 to 5, and on Sundays from 1 to 5. The library is not open 

 on Sundays. Books are not allowed to be taken from the building. 



AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The collections of this society have accumulated since 1859 by 

 gift, purchase, and exchange. In the early days many specimens 

 were purchased for the society by the late Dr. T. B. Wilson; in i860 

 Mr. E. P. Cresson presented his entire collection of coleoptera; in 

 1863 a large collection of European moths was presented by W. H. 

 Edwards; in 1864 Dr. T. B. Wilson presented the original collection 

 of Professor Felipe Poey of Havana; in 1885 W. H. Ashmead presented 

 types of many of his species of parasitic hymenoptera. The collec- 

 tions also include the Charles Wilt collection of coleoptera; the Von 

 Osten Sacken collection of dipterous insects and cynipidous galls; 

 the George H. Horn collection of over 67,000 coleoptera, including 

 many types; the H. F. Bassett collection of cynipidae, including nearly 

 all his types; the S. N. Dunning collection of hymenoptera; the B. 

 Clemens collection of micro-moths, containing nearly all his types; 

 the C. A. Blake collection of lepidoptera; and the Cresson collection of 

 hymenoptera, containing 75,000-100,000 specimens and 2000-3000 

 types. 



The society occupies rooms in the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 (Logan Square) under the terms of an agreement made in 1895, by 

 which the society agreed to continue its library and collections, in 

 charge of its librarian and curator, subject to the by-laws of the acad- 

 emy, in such space as may be provided by the academy. It is pro- 

 vided that no person shall be eligible for membership in the Entomo- 

 logical Society who is not already a member of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences. The collections are in charge of Henry Skinner, curator. 



