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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec., 
REPORT OF THE CURATORS. 
During the past year the Academy received from the Common¬ 
wealth of Pennsylvania an appropriation of §75,000 for the purpose 
of completing the alterations and additions to the building outlined 
in the plans prepared several years ago, and intended to safe¬ 
guard the institution against fire and to render more complete the 
library, museum, and teaching plant. 
The alterations now under way comprise a brick casing to the 
south wall of the old green stone building, the addition of two stories 
to the connecting building on Nineteenth Street, containing the 
local museum, and the addition of granite and terra-cotta trimmings 
to make it uniform with the other buildings; the complete remodel¬ 
ling of the old library hall for museum purposes, the walling off of the 
herbarium rooms, recoating of the roof of the main museum and the 
addition of new skylights; also the fireproofing of exposed iron work, 
the substitution of concrete for wooden floors, improvement of the 
old cellar, and the extension of the electric lighting and plumbing 
systems. Metal cases are also to be provided in the hall formerly 
used for the library. 
The work was begun in October, and is to be finished in time for 
the Academy’s Centennial Celebration, in March. The preparations 
for the alterations involved the closing of the entire museum except 
the Archaeological and Mineralogical and the Mammal floors and 
the removal of most of the exhibits, as well as the entire Entomo¬ 
logical Department to temporary quarters. It has therefore been 
impossible to institute any improvements in the arrangement of 
the exhibition collections, although certain important additions 
have been made to them. 
A large amount of research and routine work has, however, been 
accomplished by the members of the scientific staff, as outlined in 
the accompanying special reports. In addition, Dr. J. Percy Moore 
has continued his studies on the deep-sea Annelids dredged in the 
North Pacific by expeditions of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, Leland 
Stanford Junior University, and the University of California, and on 
collections made by several persons along the coast of California. 
Descriptions of new forms have been published in the Proceedings 
and cotypes and duplicates reserved for the Academy’s collection. 
The collections of worms have been cared for as usual and assistance 
has been rendered to various individuals and institutions in the 
identification of specimens and in giving information. 
