352 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Dec., 
Rhoads collection, numbering 4,390 entries, has been copied into the 
regular mammal catalogue. 
Specimens have been loaned during the year to Dr. J. A. Allen 
and Mr. A. H. Howell. 
Birds. 
A number of accessions to the local collection have been placed on 
exhibition and much of the collection rearranged and relabelled. 
The services of Miss Ruth Faries were secured during nine months 
of the year and much needed clerical work was accomplished. Sev¬ 
eral temporary catalogues were copied into the regular Academy 
register, including that of the Hoopes collection, making a total of 
some 14,000 entries. In addition new labels were prepared for all 
the skins of the lower families of Passeres in the study collection, as 
well as of the Tanagridae and most of the Fringillidae. 
The eggs in the Pennock collection and many of those in the Drown 
collection were placed in glass-covered boxes and catalogued, while 
many unmounted specimens of birds were converted into skin 
specimens. 
Dr. Stone, although mainly occupied with the executive duties of 
the Museum, revised several of the families in the study collection 
and prepared a report on the Jewel collection of Panama birds, which 
has been published in the Proceedings. 
The most notable accessions received during the year were the 
Mrs. W. A. Drown collection of bird eggs and mounted birds, and 
a collection of Colombian birds obtained by purchase. 
Dr. H. C. Oberholser, Mr. W. E. C. Todd, Mr. Edwin Ashby and 
Mr. F. H. Kennard have made use of the collections, while specimens 
have been loaned to Mr. Todd, Mr. C. B. Cory and Dr. C. W. Rich¬ 
mond. 
Reptiles and Fishes. 
Mr. Henry W. Fowler, who has had charge of the fishes as well 
as of the reptiles, reports that 1,783 fishes have been received during 
the year, which have all been catalogued and labelled. He has also 
critically identified some 400 species of fishes. These comprised 
specimens in the Academy collection from Brazil, Panama, the West 
Indies and Australia as well as our entire series of African fishes and 
a collection from Samoa loaned by Capt. C. F. Silvester, from which 
the Academy will receive duplicates. 
Two papers were published in the Proceedings on Philippine 
fishes and on a collection received from Paraguay. Progress was 
