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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec., 
REPORT OF THE CURATORS. 
The Curators are able to report many improvements in the 
museum and buildings of the Academy during the past year, as 
well as important advances in the arrangement and growth of the 
collections. 
In the early part of the year, through the increased funds at their 
disposal, the services of Dr. Henry Skinner and Mr. E. G. 
Vanatta were secured as Assistants ; Dr. Henry A. Pilsbry was 
appointed Special Curator of Mollusca, while Mr. Henry W. 
Fowler has been employed identifying, arranging and caring for 
the collection of fishes. 
With these additions the salaried staff of the Academy is now 
greater than ever before, and the work accomplished during the 
year has been correspondingly increased. 
During the summer the outside woodwork of the buildings, 
which has been for some time badly in need of attention, has been 
entirely repainted, and necessary repairs have been made to the 
roofs. 
A number of cases have been erected for the extension of the 
library and for the accommodation of additions to the herbarium 
and the study collection of moilusks, while eighteen moth-proof 
tin cases have been purchased for the study series of birds and 
mammals, in addition to five large wooden ones uniform with those 
provided last year. 
In the museum seven plate glass cases have been constructed 
from the general appropriations and the income of the “ Mary 
Jeanes Museum Fund.” Three of these are of large size, two for 
birds and one for mammals, and cover collectively over six hun¬ 
dred square feet of floor space. Two other cases have been pre¬ 
sented by Mr. Clarence B. Moore, uniform with those already 
installed, to accommodate the accessions to the 4< Moore Archaeo¬ 
logical Collection.” The large slab of fossil ferns presented by 
Mr. C. B. Nichols has also been enclosed in glass. 
The opening of the museum on Sunday afternoons has been con¬ 
tinued throughout the year, to the gratification of large numbers 
of persons who are unable to visit it on weekdays. 
During the past summer the Academy has for the first time 
