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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec . r 
REPORT OF THE CURATORS. 
The collections in the care of the Curators remain in an excellent 
condition and progress has been made in their study and classification. 
In June an appropriation of $150,000 was made to the Academy by 
the State of Pennsylvania, for the erection of a new fireproof Library 
and Auditorium. Plans for this new building, to be erected south of 
the present Museum, and for the remodeling of the old Library building 
for Museum purposes, have been adopted and work w T ill begin early in 
the coming year. 
The rearrangement of the collections in the old Museum building, 
which was closed to the public while the new roof was being constructed, 
has been practically completed, but until the new exhibition cases now 
under construction are installed, it is thought best to keep the building 
closed. 
In rearranging the collections, the fossil Vertebrates and the Lea 
collection of Eocene fossils occupy the main floor. The first gallery, 
where birds were formerly displayed, now contains the collections of 
fossil Invertebrates arranged in geological sequence. The exhibit of 
recent mollusks is to remain on the second gallery. 
A temporary partition shuts off the east end of the main floor, forming 
a room for the arrangement of the rapidly increasing study collection 
of mollusks. 
One hundred white pine cabinets were purchased during the year 
for the accommodation of this collection. In addition 720 cubic feet of 
exhibition cases, uniform with those previously purchased, have been 
ordered, and a number of moth-proof metal cases for the entomological 
and ornithological study collections. 
Mr. Clarence B. Moore has made additional explorations among the 
Indian mounds of the Southern States, and added valuable specimens 
to his collection. 
Dr. Skinner, at the instance of the Canadian Government, accom- 
panied Dr. Fletcher on a trip through Saskatchewan during the 
summer, and made extensive entomological collections for the Academy. 
Mr. Rehn, through the liberality of Mr. Morgan Hebard, was enabled 
to accompany him on a trip through New Mexico, Arizona and Cali- 
fornia, collecting Orthoptera and reptiles. All of the latter and half 
of the Orthoptera became the property of the Academy. 
Numerous local trips to various parts of Pennsylvania and New 
Jersey by other members of the Museum staff have added largely to 
the herbarium and the collections of fishes reptiles and mollusks. 
