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Annual Reports of Academy of 
Ophthalmologists and Oto-Laryngologists. Local societies have 
also held their meetings at the Academy, including the Garden 
Clubs of Philadelphia, the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 
the Philadelphia Botanical Club, and the Philadelphia Mineral- 
ogical Club. 
Details of work in the several departments and accessions for 
the year follow: 
Mammals 
Many valuable specimens have been received from the Zoological 
Society of Philadelphia which have been prepared either for study 
or exhibition. 
The study collection has been carefully examined and poisoned 
preparatory to a thorough rearrangement. 
Birds 
A valuable collection of skins from the interior of Bolivia con- 
taining many species new to the Academy’s collection was purchased 
from Air. Jose Steinbach. A number of important specimens were 
presented by the Zoological Society including a kagu, a bird hither- 
to unrepresented in the collection. Many noteworthy local speci- 
mens were also received from various sources. The most notable 
accession, however, was the series of South American water-birds 
generously given by Dr. L. C. Sanford, being duplicates from the 
collection made for him by Rollo H. Beck, the main portion of which 
is in the American Museum of Natural History, New York. The 
collections have been extensively studied during the year by visit- 
ing ornithologists. The meeting of the American Ornith- 
ologists’ Union brought to the Academy most of the leading ornith- 
ologists of the United States and Canada, who made free use of the 
specimens in their studies. Mr. PI. Kirke Swann, the British 
ornithologist, also visited the Academy on this occasion. 
During the year Mr. Huber has catalogued and labelled all of 
the accumulated material and distributed it through the collection. 
He has completed the labelling of the various cases, which greatly 
facilitates consultation. He also relaxed and restuffed many 
poorly made skins among the recent accessions. 
