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Annual Reports of Academy of 
The Museum halls have been open as usual to the public during 
the year and have been visited by large numbers of persons, especi¬ 
ally classes of school children from the city and nearby suburbs. 
Through the cooperation of the Ludwick Institute, the services 
of Mr. Harold T. Green have been available throughout the past 
year, and besides managing the Ludwick lecture courses, he has 
accomplished much in increasing the educational value of the 
museum exhibits and in general publicity work, thereby making 
known the activities of the Academy both in the field and in the 
museum. 
Several important exhibits have been prepared during the year, 
notably a series of casts of the reptiles and batrachians of Penn¬ 
sylvania and New Jersey, which will soon be placed in special 
cases with descriptive labels to supplement the collections of local 
birds and crustaceans already on exhibit, the intention being to 
eventually provide as complete a series as possible illustrative of 
the zoology of the vicinity of Philadelphia. 
A special exhibit which has been in preparation and will be dis¬ 
played in the near future, is a group of Bald Eagles, the nest, with 
the tree top in which it was located, having been secured for the 
Academy by Mr. Arthur H. Fisher, from the shores of Chesapeake 
Bay. 
Entomological exhibits illustrating the life-history of the des¬ 
tructive Japanese Beetle and the harmless Chinese Mantis, both 
recently introduced into this vicinity and at present attracting 
much popular interest, have been prepared by Mr. Green. 
The seasonal collection of mounted birds was again displayed 
during the Spring months to show just what species may be looked 
for every week in the neighborhood of Philadelphia as the migration 
advances, and attracted much interest, as did the similar exhibit 
of pressed wild flowers. 
The scientific staff has been fully occupied with the care and 
study of the research collections, and much important progress 
has been made, details of which are given in the reports of the 
several departments. 
