576 PROCEEDINGS OP THE ACADEMY OF [DeC., 
At the annual meeting of the Section, held December 5, the following 
were elected as officers for the ensuing year : 
Director, 
Vice-Director, 
Recorder, 
Treasurer and Conservator, 
Benjamin H. Smith. 
Joseph Crawford. 
Charles S. Williamson. 
Stewardson Brown. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Stewardson Brown, 
Conservator. 
The Ornithological Section. 
During the past year the remainder of the mounted collection of 
birds, comprising the ostriches and their allies and the song birds, have 
been arranged on the new Ornithological floor in cases provided for 
them, and the work of relabelling the Picarise, Passeres, etc., has been 
begun. 
The greater part of the Conservator's time, apart from general 
museum work, has been devoted to a thorough revision of the study 
series of bird skins. Before installing the extensive Tristram collection 
it was found necessary to reidentify the old material and bring the 
nomenclature up to date. At the same time all species represented 
in the collection have been checked up in Sharpe’s Hand List of Birds, 
so that it is possible to ascertain at a glance the Academy’s desiderata. 
This work has been completed from the Parrots to the Song Birds, 
this portion of the collection occupying eighty of the standard metal 
cases. 
Mr. J. A. G. Rehn has spent about six months’ time in relabelling 
the Tristram collection, amplifying the tags from the manuscript 
catalogue, and has completed about one half of this material. He 
has also relaxed many of the old unmounted specimens and greatly 
improved their appearance. 
Numerous accessions have been received during the year, among 
which may be mentioned a collection of Brazilian birds from Mrs. 
Thomas Gummey, a raven’s nest and other specimens for the Delaware 
Valley Club collection. 
A special mahogany and plate glass case was finished early in the 
year for the display of the Great Auk and the Labrador Ducks, and 
twelve additional metal cases have been purchased for the study 
collection. 
