442 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1888. 
Attention is again called to the important question of Sunday 
opening. The numerous requests for admission into the museum on 
Sundays clearly speak the public mind, or at any rate, the wish of a 
large number of the city’s inhabitants. The Academy of the Fine 
Art and the Zoological Society have set an example in the right 
direction, and there seems to be no reason, beyond an inadequacy of 
funds to maintain such opening, why our Academy should not fol¬ 
low the lead. Sunday-opening would certainly be a charity to that 
large body of useful citizens whose daily employment debars them 
from the advantages which the institution otherwise offers. 
During the year specimens for study have been loaned to Prof. 
R. P. Whitfield, of New York; to Prof’s. Osborn and Scott, of 
Princeton ; to Dr. G. Baur, of New Haven; to Dr. George Marx, of 
Washington; and to Dr. Harrison Allen, of this city. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Angelo Heilprin, 
Curator-in- Charge . 
Joseph Leidy, 
Ch'n Curators. 
REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF THE WILLIAM S. 
VAUX COLLECTIONS. 
The Curator of the William S. Vaux Collections respectfully sub¬ 
mits his sixth annual report to the Council of the Academy. 
The collections are in good order and condition, the only change 
made since the report of 1887, being the introduction of one hundred 
and two specimens purchased within the year and added to the 
collection. These specimens have been purchased at a cost of 
$420.10. 
The collections now consist of the following:— 
No. of minerals reported 1887, ..... 6,780 
No. of minerals purchased 1888, . . . . . 102 
Total,.. 6,888 
Archseological specimens (same as reported in 1887), . 2,940 
