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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec., 
The alcoholic material has beeu examined, and a large number 
ot' specimens have been catalogued and systematically arranged. 
In the Department of Archaeology, Mr. Clarence B. Moore has 
added many valuable specimens to bis collection and has personally 
superintended their arrangement and labeling, while Miss H. N. 
Wardle has made important progress in cataloguing the Haldeman 
collection. 
The additions to the collections during the year have been of 
importance, as may be seen from the appended list. Most note- 
worthy were the valuable series of vertebrates and insects col- 
lected in Sumatra by Mr. Alfred C. Harrison, Jr., and Dr. H. 
M. Hiller and generously presented by them to the Academy. 
Reports on these collections have already been published or pre- 
pared for publication, covering the mammals, birds, reptiles and 
fishes. 
Another important gift was a collection of 2,000 plants from the 
western United States received from Mr. Benjamin H. Smith, 
while Alfred C. Harrison, Jr., Clarence B. Moore, Samuel F. 
Houston, John Carter, Charles H. Cramp, James D. Winsor and 
Beulah M. Rhoads, members of the Academy, have secured through 
purchase a valuable series of birds from the Galapagos Islands. 
From its general fund the Academy has also been enabled to 
purchase the Rhoads Collection of North American Mammals, com- 
prising some 4,000 skins and skulls which fill an important gap in 
the Museum, and places the mammal collection on an excellent 
basis. 
Many valuable specimens of mammals, birds and reptiles have 
been received during the year from the Zoological Society of Phila- 
delphia, and Dr. H. C. Chapman has presented a beautifully pre- 
pared set of marine invertebrates obtained from the Zoological 
Station at Naples. 
During the spring Messrs. H. L. Viereck and J. A. G. Rehn 
visited southern New Mexico under direction of the Academy, and 
secured valuable collections of insects and plants and many verte- 
brates. 
The Conservator of the William S. Vaux Collections, Mr. Theo- 
dore D. Rand, regrets that owing to illness he has not been able to 
give as much time to his duties as heretofore. With the assistance 
of Mr. George Vaux, Jr., such desirable specimens as came to his 
