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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec. 
these is a remarkably beautiful stone vessel, bearing a representation of 
a duck’s head rising from the rim, which was discovered near Mound- 
ville, Ala. 
Early in the year Mr. Samuel N. Rhoads was sent out in the interests 
of the Academy to explore the lower Colorado river and adjacent 
parts of Lower California, Owing to unprecedented floods in the 
region the expedition was not so successful as had been expected, but 
a valuable collection of birds and mammals was secured. 
Dr. Henry Skinner spent the greater part of the summer in the 
Huachuca Mountains of southern Arizona collecting for the Museum, 
and brought back a series of 2,500 insects of exceptional interest as 
well as a number of valuable reptiles and mollusks. 
Through the liberality of Mr. Morgan Hebarcl, Mr. J. A. G. Rehn 
was enabled to accompany him on a trip through central Florida col- 
lecting Orthoptera, half of the entire series of 4,000 specimens becoming 
the property of the Academy. 
Mr. Stewardson Brown, through an arrangement with the New York 
Botanic Garden, was also enabled to visit Bermuda with the Director, 
Dr. N. L. Britton, and a full series of their joint collection, probably 
the best yet made on the island, has been added to the Academy’s 
Herbarium. 
Among the additions to the Museum during the year especial men- 
tion must be made of a notable series of about 500 birds from British 
East Africa, collected by Mr. George L. Harrison, Jr., and deposited 
in the Academy. 
A collection of marine animals on the Florida coast by Mr. George 
Wood, a series of reptiles obtained for the Academy in Kansas by Mr. 
C. T. Sands, and a valuable collection of mollusks procured in eastern 
Cuba by Dr. H. M. Hiller, were also added to the collections. 
Detailed accounts of the year’s work in several departments are 
appended. In addition to these, the task of attaching tin tags bearing 
the catalogue numbers to the entire series of reptiles and batrachians 
has been completed by Messrs. Rehn and Lorrilliere. The smaller 
mammalian skulls have also been labelled and systematically arranged, 
while a rearrangement of a large part of the study series of mammal 
skins has been effected. 
Mr. Fowler has continued the identification and arrangement of the 
fishes, besides making large collections of local species. Dr. J. Percy 
Moore has continued his study and care of the Helminthological col- 
lection, and Miss H. N. Wardle has made progress in the cataloguing 
of the archaiological material . 
