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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec., 
Mr. Stone, with the assistance of the Jessup students, has rearranged 
the entire series of reptiles and batrachians, relieving their overcrowded 
condition, and has labelled and tagged with metal numbers the entire 
series of Garter Snakes, as well as all recent accessions. Twelve 
thousand metal tags have been prepared and the work of tagging the 
whole collection will be pushed as rapidly as possible. 
Miss H. N. Wardle has been constantly engaged in labelling, cata- 
loguing and arranging the archaeological collections, rendering them 
much more instructive to the student and visitor. 
The preparator, Mr. McCadden, has mounted a number of mammals, 
notably an African Buffalo, and lias prepared many specimens for the 
study collections. 
Besides the services rendered by the Museum staff and the students 
of the Jessup Fund, the Curators are indebted to Dr. Philip P. Calvert, 
Mr. Erich Daecke, Mr. PI. W. Wenzel, Mr. IP. L. Viereck and Mr. E. T. 
Cresson, Jr., for assistance in the Entomological department. 
The Anti-P\iberculosis Society, Philadelphia Botanical Club, Nomen- 
clature Committee Botanical Club A. A. A. S., Mycological Club, 
Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, Pennsylvania Audubon Society 
and Delaware Valley Naturalists’ Union have held meetings in the 
Academy building during the year. 
The collections have been extensively studied by visiting specialists, 
while material has been loaned to the following: Robert Ridgway, 
H. C. Oberholser, G. S. Miller, Jr., E. B. Williamson, 0. P. Hay, C. F. 
Sands, T. PI. Montgomery, Jr., E. S. Steele, W. B. Scott, Florence 
Bascom, W. E. Meehan, James H. Lambert, J. F. Holt, C. V. Piper, 
E. L. Morris, W. B. Clarke, Paul Bartsch, J. W. Harshberger, Lawrence 
Bruner, H. W. Fowler, J. A. Allen and A. E. Ortman. 
Samuel G. Dixon, 
Curator. 
Report of the Special Curator of the Department of Mollusca. 
The accessions to the collection of mollusks during 1904 have ex- 
ceeded in number those of any year since the reception of the A. D. 
Brown collection in 1887. Specimens have been received from 78 
sources, the most valuable or extensive being the following: 
A series of 330 lots of shells from the keys and adjacent mainland of 
Florida, from Mr. Clarence B. Moore, part collected by his own party, 
part by others sent by him to collect mollusks. This is by far 
the most extensive series of mollusks ever obtained on the I'lorida 
