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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec. 
the study collections, which, as stated in last year’s report, had 
nearly all been moved into new or renovated quarters, upon the 
completion of the building operations in 1912. 
A large amount of work along these lines was necessary, and the 
appended reports of the special departments will show in detail the 
results that have been attained. 
In the departments of Entomology, Ornithology, and Botany, 
which underwent the greatest changes, immense improvements have 
been made in the arrangement of the collections, rendering them 
much more accessible and providing for the accommodation of 
additional accessions. 
Furthermore, these arrangements and the acquirement of addi¬ 
tional storage cases will permit of the withdrawing of duplicate 
material now on exhibition, especially in the departments of Con- 
chology and Ornithology, and facilitate the display of the remainder 
to much better advantage. In this connection the preparation of 
descriptive labels is contemplated, while groups illustrative of the 
life history of the species will be substituted for single mounts. 
Comparatively little change has been possible in the arrangement 
of exhibits this year owing to the crowded condition of many of the 
cases and the lack of new cases for the north wing. The former 
condition will be remedied during the coming year, as already 
explained, while it is hoped that enough new cases may be obtained 
to permit of the reopening of the north wing. 
The greater part of the collection of vertebrate fossils has been 
thoroughly cleansed, removed from the old table cases, and arranged 
systematically in trays which have been temporarily placed under 
the mahogany cases containing the exhibition series of fossil mol- 
lusca. Here they are readily accessible for study until permanent 
cases can be provided. v 
The removal of the Wm. S. Yaux collection of minerals to the 
old library hall has been completed and Mr. F. J. Iveeley has rearranged 
the specimens; while under his direction Mr. S. G. Gordon, a student 
on the Jessup Fund, has continued the cataloguing of the collection 
which was begun some years ago. The skeleton of the large Sperm 
Whale, secured in 1911, has been placed temporarily in the centre of 
this hall, where it has attracted much attention. This skeleton 
together with one of the Mesoplodon makes the Academy’s series of 
the larger Cetaceans almost complete as far as genera are concerned. 
Mr. Clarence B. Moore has continued his investigations of the 
Indian mounds of the southern United States and has added a 
