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by will the sale of his scientific library and collections, the receipts 
to b^ invested for the benefit of the Botanical Section. The books 
have been disposed of at auction. The duplicates included in the 
Meehan gift were sold at the same time by direction of Mr. Mee¬ 
han, the sum realized to be applied to the same object: the in¬ 
crease of that which, by resolution of the Botanical Section, is to be 
known as the John H. Redfield Fund. 
Through the foresight of the Corresponding Secretary a new 
section, which cannot fail to be of importance to the Department 
of Instruction, has been added to the library during the year. 
It consists of a collection of lantern slides, for the purpose of 
lecture illustration. Those now in the possession of the Academy 
have been derived from the following sources: John G. Meigs’ be¬ 
quest 135, Prof. Alfred Bickmore 100, Dr. Benjamin Sharp 45, 
Prof. E. D. Cope 26, Dr. H. Skinner 16, and Prof. D. G. Elliott 4. 
The collection has been classified and catalogued by Dr. Sharp and 
is now ready for use. 
Acknowledgment is again due Mr. Wm. J. Fox for the faithful 
and intelligent discharge of his duties as assistant to the Librarian 
during the past year. 
All of which is respectfully submitted. 
Edward J. Nolan, 
Librarian. 
REPORT OF THE CURATORS. 
The Curators report that the various collections in their charge 
are in a still more satisfactory state of preservation than at the 
time of their last annual report, while great progress has been 
made during the year in the rearrangement and cataloguing of 
the several departments and many valuable additions have been 
received. 
Although the first floor of the new museum building is practi¬ 
cally ready for exhibition, it has not yet been thrown open to the 
public, as the work of arranging and labelling, which yet remains 
to be done, would be very much hindered thereby. Mr. Clarence 
B. Moore has presented three additional cases for the display of 
the rich additions he has made to the Moore Archaeological Col- 
