REPORT OF THE CURATOR. 
Beloit, Wis., Sept. 6th, 1893. 
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences , Arts and Letters , 
Gentlemen —The classification and labelling of the fo&sils 
has been begun and completed during the past year. This ma¬ 
terial consists wholly of the fossils contributed to the Academy 
by the Wisconsin Geological Survey. 
. Two collections from this source have been in the possession 
of the Academy, but for lack of room these have of late been 
kept in the geological museum of the University. The smaller 
and more valuable of these contains only the type fossils de¬ 
scribed and figured by Prof. Whitfield in the publications of 
that survey. The other is one of the twelve subordinate col¬ 
lections into which the remaining fossil material was divided 
after its classification at that time. 
Only the first collection was of any especial value to the 
Academy, and last winter the other was loaned indefinitely to 
the University to replace a similar collection lost in the de¬ 
struction of the old Science Hall by fire. 
During the year these collections have been labelled, the 
first as a separate collection, the specimens bearing an Academy 
label, and occupying one of the cases in the geological museum 
at the University entirely apart from the other University col¬ 
lections. 
The fossils of the second collection have been arranged with 
the University collections, but are distinguished from others 
by the name of the association placed on each label. 
This has seemed to us to be the best disposal that could be 
made of this property of the association, as it renders the 
