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Annual Reports of Academy of 
Report of the Curators. 
The Museum halls have been open free to the public as usual 
throughout the year with a constantly increasing attendance espec- 
ially on Sundays and lecture days. 
Notable among the specimens received for exhibition have been 
a series of beautifully mounted heads of African game animals de- 
posited by Airs. B. C. Madeira, and several others presented by 
Mr. Edward Browning. Also a fine specimen of the rare giant 
spider-crab of Japan presented in the name of Edward Russell 
Jones by Airs. Edward Russell Jones. 
At the very close of the year it was possible to secure the services 
of Mr. Harold T. Green to take charge of the Ludwick department 
of Public Instruction, the objects of which were outlined in last 
year’s report, and plans are already under way for increasing the 
educational value of the museum. 
Two handsome exhibition cases have been provided through the 
generosity of a member for the further display of specimens in the 
Archeological Department. 
Early in the year the Academy suffered a severe loss in the death 
of Stewardson Brown, for twenty years in charge of the Herbarium. 
Largely owing to his faithful care the historic collections contained 
in this department of the museum are now in an excellent state of 
preservation and readily available for study. On October I, Dr. 
Francis W. Pennell was appointed Special Curator of Plants to 
fill Mr. Brown’s place, and Air. John M. Eogg Jr., was appointed 
a student on the Jessup Fund to act as an assistant in this depart- 
ment. 
In the department of Vertebrate Zoology Mr. Wharton Huber 
was appointed an Assistant Curator in charge of birds and mammals. 
Owing to the constantly increasing duties of the Executive Curator- 
ship, Dr. Stone has been unable during the past several years to 
give these collections the care and attention that they required, 
and the appointment of Air. Huber has resulted in bringing them 
into excellent order. 
