1911.] 
NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 
6ogr 
Report of the Ornithological Section. 
Work in the Ornithological department during the past year has 
consisted mainly in the labelling and cataloguing of the numerous 
accessions and in the rearrangement of a large portion of the Passerine 
birds in the exhibition series and a number of families in the study 
series. In this work the Conservator is much indebted to Mr. J. A. G. 
Itehn for valuable assistance. 
Twelve storage cases and two large exhibition cases have been 
procured for the better accommodation of the collections. 
Among the most important accessions were a collection of birds 
from the East Indies, obtained by purchase, a fine series of Vene¬ 
zuelan bird secured by the Francis E. Bond Expedition, and a large 
number of local birds, nests and eggs for the Delaware Valley Or¬ 
nithological Club from the late Francis W. Rawle, Robert T. Moore, 
and others. 
The Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, Spencer F. Baird 
Club and the Pennsylvania Audubon Society have held their meetings 
at the Academy during the year, and November 13-16 the American 
Ornithologists’ Union assembled at the Academy for their twenty- 
ninth stated meeting, which proved to be one of the most successful 
in the history of the society. 
The annual meeting of the Section was held on December 5, and 
the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 
Director 
Vice-Director 
Recorder 
Corresponding Secretary 
Treasurer and Conservator 
Spencer Trotter, M.D. 
George Spencer Morris. 
Stewardson Brown. 
William A. Shryock.. 
Witmer Stone. 
Wither Stone, 
Conservator . 
The annual election of Officers, Councillors and Members of the 
Committee on Accounts to serve during. 1912 was held, with the 
following result: 
President Samuel G. Dixon, M.D., LL.D. 
Vice-Presidents Edwin G. Conklin, A.M.,Ph.D., 
Sc.D., 
John Cadwalader. 
Edward J. Nolan, M.D. 
Recording Secretary 
