Annual Report 2018/2019 A for Nature 2

Dear Friends,

For over 200 years, the Academy has been leading critical research to better understand our planet and its challenges. With some of the world’s outstanding researchers seeking answers to the most critical environmental issues of our time, the Academy is forming partnerships within our community to share our findings and make our way of life more sustainable and equitable. Over the past few years, we have been taking a stand on issues that matter to us, including climate change, evolution, preserving water resources and protecting our biodiversity. Through our recent strategic planning efforts, we explored ways the Academy can diversify our programming, connect with our audiences, integrate the perspectives of those we serve and inspire stewardship of our natural world.

As advocates for our planet, we know that now is the time to act. Our earth is facing the fastest rising global average in modern times, plus extreme storms, sea level rise, heat waves, wildfires, floods and more. These changes are causing an alarming loss of biodiversity, and they also will leave behind a different world for our children, our grandchildren and our great grandchildren. If we work now to research, identify and implement changes that make ecosystems healthy, future generations will have cleaner water, air, soil and food. They will have the natural resources they need to operate strong economies. And, they will follow our lead in becoming a force for nature so that those that come after them can continue to enjoy the beautiful nature that surrounds us today.

At the Academy, we celebrate our natural world every day through informing, initiating and convening critical conversations about our planet. We believe science matters, and we take daily action to connect people with nature in impactful ways. We are deeply grateful for everyone on the Academy team, including our wonderful scientists, educators, administrators, volunteers and others who propel this institution forward every day. As you will see in this annual report, in just the past year we have taken great strides to bring science education to under-represented communities in Philadelphia, study the safety of our water, explore how even the tiniest diatoms serve as environmental indicators, travel to the ends of the earth in search of our evolutionary history and utilize scientific collections to understand how our oceans are changing. And it is thanks to you, our most loyal contributors, for making our work possible.

Thanks to our collective Academy community, we are able to inform and build a movement of environmentally engaged communities for a healthy, sustainable and equitable planet. We welcome you to share your questions, thoughts and ideas with us both at the email addresses below, as your input is critical to our mission. Together, we are a force for nature.

Regards,

Scott Cooper David E. Griffith President and CEO Chair, Board of Trustees [email protected] [email protected] 3 4

A Force for Nature

At the Academy of Natural Sciences, we connect people with nature in impactful ways, seeking to inspire everyone to care for the environment through fun, interactive programs and exhibits focused on the natural world.

Academy Learning Partnerships Thrive

The Learning Department received $200,000 from the William Penn Foundation to continue Discover! Play! Share!, its partnership with ASPIRA and Congreso de Latino in early literacy and STEAM development. The partnership focuses especially on sustainably integrating literacy and STEAM activities into each organization and providing quality bilingual family programming focused on literacy and science skills for Latino families from these communities.

We also continued work on Science and Literacy for Success, a program that provides teachers of 3- to 5-year-olds in West Philadelphia with training and teaching tools they need to encourage and expand on the natural curiosity and abilities of young children in science, technology, engineering and math. The program serves early-childhood learning centers through a three-year, $685,600 grant from the William Penn Foundation and through a three-year, $432,094 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. We thank our funders, including Boeing, which provides $50,000 in support of our learning programs, for their generosity! 5 6

Engineering and WINS

An Academy and Drexel team was awarded a $1.2 million grant through the iTEST (Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers) program at the National Science Foundation to fund a new Engineering Women In Natural Sciences program. In collaboration with Drexel’s College of Engineering, School of Education, the Philadelphia Education Fund and industry partners, the Engineering WINS program will guide working engineers and faculty through a full year of training in mentoring under-represented students. Specifically, these professionals will learn culturally relevant pedagogies and ways to combat stereotype barriers and implicit biases as they work to design a new engineering curriculum that sparks and sustains the interests of women of color in grades 9–12. The team’s ultimate goal is to investigate how a largely homogeneous group of working engineers can enter into mentoring relationships that increase participation in their field by under-represented populations. 7 8

YEARS OF SUCCESS

for the WOMEN IN NATURAL Public Experience 36 SCIENCES PROGRAM Expert Joins Academy Leadership

Niki Ciccotelli Stewart, a New Jersey native, joined the Academy following 10 transformative years in Bentonville, Arkansas, where she helped TOTAL VISITORS conceptualize, establish and advance one of the DURING FISCAL country’s most progressive art museums — Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. She has spent 204,978 YEAR 2019 most of her career in the arts world and joined Crystal Bridges in 2008, three years before the museum opened to the public. As a member of the opening team, Stewart helped take the museum concept from idea to reality, simultaneously building the physical site, operations and programming. In her most recent position as chief engagement officer, she worked closely with all museum departments to deliver an outstanding, SCHOOLCHILDREN meaningful and engaging experience for more VISITED THE than 600,000 guests each year. MUSEUM 22,274 during Joining the Academy last spring, Stewart is FIELD TRIPS revitalizing the Academy experience through a host of new and upgraded initiatives being announced this year. She will be guiding the Academy team as we upgrade the front-of-house space, re-focus our educational efforts on adults and families and position ourselves to be the place where communities, scientists and change agents

can come together to have critical conversations of EARLY-CHILDHOOD PROVIDERS needed to help save the planet. served by THE ACADEMY

IMPROVED THEIR QUALITY 69% RATING with SUPPORT from our LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS 9 10

Protecting Our Waters

Measuring Toxic Chemicals in our Water

We may not be able to see them with the naked eye, but we know they are ever-present. PFAS (short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), a family of toxic chemicals linked to an array of serious illnesses, are widely found in drinking water and consumer products. Produced since the 1940s, they have been used in a wide array of industrial, commercial and consumer applications and products, including firefighting foams, dental floss, former formulations of Teflon™ and Scotchgard™ and food packaging.

Dubbed “forever chemicals,” PFAS don’t degrade easily and have been accumulating in the environment. PFAS have been found in the drinking water of over 16 million Americans across 33 states, and it is estimated that the water supplies of 110 million Americans may be contaminated with PFAS. 11 12

In the Philadelphia region, PFAS have been detected in public tap water systems in Montgomery, Bucks, Gloucester, Camden and New Castle counties, in water, sediment and fish from the mainstem Delaware River, and even in the eggs of osprey nesting in the Delaware Bay. Known and suspected sources for this regional contamination include manufacturing plants and localized use of PFAS-containing firefighting foams by airports and military installations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

The production and use of some PFAS compounds have been voluntarily phased out over the past 12 years. However, new PFAS compounds are still being developed, the toxicity and persistence of which are largely unknown. The federal Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, which regulates new and existing chemicals, does not require applicants to provide toxicity data for new chemicals, leaving the burden of proof on the EPA to demonstrate a significant risk. Last year the EPA rolled out an action plan to address PFAS but, to the disconcert of many scientists, it does not formally classify PFAS as regulated hazardous substances, establish a legally In response, Academy scientists Marie Kurz, PhD, enforceable limit for PFAS in drinking water, nor set a and Rich Horwitz, PhD, have begun studying how timeline for formal regulatory action. PFAS compounds accumulate in plants and animals in Philadelphia area streams. With funding from the United States Department of Defense’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program and In the Philadelphia region, in collaboration with colleagues at Drexel, Temple and PFAS have been detected in Lock Haven Universities and the U.S. Geological Survey, the study will help support the prediction and assessment public tap water systems and of ecological risks of PFAS to aquatic ecosystems and even in the eggs of osprey to humans. In particular, Kurz, Horwitz and the team will study the extent, pathways and rates by which PFAS nesting in the Delaware Bay. are taken up by aquatic organisms and transferred through aquatic food webs, as well as their potential for consumption by humans. 13 14

What Is a Watershed? WATER SAMPLES PROCESSED by ACADEMY

SCIENTISTS for the DELAWARE 500 RIVER WATERSHED INITIATIVE A watershed is an area of land that drains rainfall and small streams to a common outlet, such as a larger stream or river, that eventually ends up at the mouth of a bay.

AWARDED to the Academy by the WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION $ to develop new programming 200K that will LINK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT to GREEN STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE

MUSSELS GROWING AT GREEN LANE RESERVOIR The Delaware River Watershed is Academy scientists help to raise a source of drinking water for 15 mussels into hearty adults, 3,000+ which play a critical role in the million people in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and New York. health of nearby waterways

In the last six years, the Academy has served as a key member of the coordinating committee of the Delaware River Watershed Initiative, a partnership of 50 environmental organizations funded AMERICAN EELS COLLECTED from by the William Penn Foundation. Through the Initiative, our scientists DELAWARE RIVER TRIBUTARIES and strive to monitor, protect and released into the PICKERING CREEK restore conditions in the streams, 502 WATERSHED for the PICKERING CREEK rivers and landscapes in targeted AMERICAN EEL RESTORATION STUDY regions within the watershed. 15 16

Recording Environmental Conditions

Additions to Diatom Collection Shed Light on our Changing Climate

Deep in the wilderness of Kodiak Island, Alaska, lies the isolated, 9-mile-long Karluk Lake. Known for its abundance of sockeye salmon and surrounding populations of Kodiak brown bears and bald eagles, the lake is also home to a rapidly changing population of diatoms — single-celled algae that have walls made of silica — essentially shells of glass. The lake is also the site of a scientific mystery that captured the attention of an Academy scientist and her volunteers. 17 18

In 1961, French scientist Emile Manguin described 55 species of diatoms from Karluk Lake. The samples, many of which were considered the types, or perfect examples, of the new species, have never been found, so scientists around the world can’t consult them for research. Manguin left behind only drawings of the diatoms, which are not reliable enough to identify specimens.

Several diatom species that Manguin described from Karluk Lake are common in arctic and subarctic ecosystems, where they serve as important indicators of environmental conditions due to their sensitivity to fluctuations and pollution. Scientists studying human-induced climate change in these areas must be able to consult type specimens of these species from scientific collections. Without Manguin’s type specimens, however, Is it possible that changes to the diatom population in researchers may misidentify species, lowering the quality of Karluk Lake are occurring because of climate change? ecological models aimed at understanding past conditions It’s possible, the scientists say, but much more research and tracking environmental changes. is needed to make a clear determination. By identifying what species occur in a region, tracing population The first “fix” to the problem of missing types is to travel to changes over time and storing their finds in scientific the location where the original specimens were collected collections, taxonomists like Potapova provide the tools to recollect new ones for study. Marina Potapova, PhD, the for applied biologists who study species as indicators of curator of the Academy’s Diatom Herbarium, knew that environmental change. the only way to re-establish an understanding of these vital species was to return to Karluk Lake and collect them again. So Potapova’s volunteer, Greg Aaron, sponsored and

organized an expedition to Karluk Lake to collect more security, keeping a trained eye out for the local bears. local diatom species. After collection, Potapova would His constant presence enabled the team to focus on their properly identify the collected specimens and designate search for diatoms. epitypes, or additional, clarifying type specimens provided

when the original materials are missing, ambiguous What the team found at the lake surprised Potapova. or insufficient. She would also sequence their DNA, They discovered that the lake, which was always photograph the specimens and study their morphology, considered to have scant diatom populations, was full “Warming changes everything, with the eventual goal of publishing these findings for of benthic (bottom-living) diatoms — the basis of the further study by researchers around the world. including what the fish eat,” says lake’s food chain. More importantly, she established that some of the diatom species that lived in Karluk Lake in Potapova. “Everything starts with In summer 2019, Potapova, Aaron and Aaron’s teenage the 1950s are no longer there. Kodiak Island has been daughter, Cate Aaron, a junior at Merion Mercy Academy diatoms, because they are at the warming in recent years, which has been affecting the High School, traveled to Kodiak Island. There they were feeding patterns of the bears and other wildlife. base of the food chain.” joined by the Refuge’s Deputy Manager, Tevis Underwood, for the floatplane trip to Karluk Lake. During the team’s “Warming changes everything, including what the fish time at the lake, Underwood provided access to the Fish there eat,” says Potapova. “Everything there starts with and Wildlife Service’s research cabin, operated the boat diatoms, because they are at the base of the food chain.” the Academy team used to collect samples and provided 19 20

Both Aarons accompanied Potapova on the expedition, Volunteers Play Vital collected samples, took photographs and prepared Role in Scientific specimens for inclusion in the collection. “Without Greg, none of this would have happened,” Discoveries Potapova says. “It’s a great example of how much volunteers can contribute to science.”

From working in the galleries to assisting with fieldwork and collections care, Academy volunteers are critical to our success. Without volunteer Greg Aaron, Diatom Herbarium Curator Marina Potapova would not have traveled to Kodiak Island, Alaska, in search of diatoms that could illuminate a mystery of missing type specimens 60 years in the making.

With an extensive teaching and research schedule, Potapova did not have time to organize and plan a trip to the remote Karluk Lake to try to find them again. Aaron, an Academy member who had been volunteering in the Herbarium for two and a half years at the time, took up the challenge — an undertaking that ultimately included hundreds of hours of planning and expedition logistics. The Academy is grateful for the dedication of our volunteers. Aaron established a relationship with the staff of the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, which administers the lake, Thank you to Greg Aaron, Cate Aaron and he helped Potapova secure a research permit. He also and the many other individuals planned the expedition logistics, including the rental of a floatplane that could land on the remote lake. His daughter whose generous contributions Cate Aaron spent the summer volunteering at the Diatom make our work possible. Herbarium and assisted with the preparations. 22

COLLECTIVE HOURS of

SERVICE CONTRIBUTED by

268 ACADEMY VOLUNTEERS 24,413 during fiscal year 2019

DREXEL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS HIRED FOR

CO-OP POSITIONS in departments ranging from

ENTOMOLOGY and BIOGEOCHEMISTRY to our 33 WOMEN IN NATURAL SCIENCES PROGRAM in fiscal year 2019

YEARS of SERVICE by VOLUNTEER JOHN NARK,

who also received the AL VISCO AWARD FOR

EXCELLENCE IN VOLUNTEERISM to support 25 research for his 14 YEARS OF CONTRIBUTIONS in VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 23 24 Studying Our Natural World

Breathing New Life Into the Invertebrate Paleontology Collection

Sitting in suspended animation under layers of dust, 1 million invertebrate fossils were all but abandoned on the Academy’s fourth floor for decades. What could be proudly called the oldest Invertebrate Paleontology collection in North America had been forgotten under dim, flickering, fluorescent lights. The collection had not had a curator for 40 years or a collection manager for 20 years. But last year, the department took on new life with the hiring of three staff and a host of new students and volunteers. 25 26

Joining the Academy team in 2017, Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology Jocelyn Sessa, PhD, is one of many scientists at the Academy researching how ecosystems are responding to our changing environment. Broadening Participation Sessa studies the “canary in the coal mine” for acidification of the ocean — pteropods. Pteropods are tiny snails with in Science thin, translucent shells. Although they’re the size of the head of a pin, they’re an incredibly important indicator of what is happening in an ecosystem because their shells are The Invertebrate Paleontology Department has partnered especially prone to dissolution by ocean acidification. with Drexel University’s Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, an NSF-funded initiative to increase the number of under-represented minority students who complete STEM Ocean acidification has been occurring since the degrees, to help support student participation in the department. Through this initiative, they hired two co-op students from industrial revolution. As ever more CO2 is pumped into Drexel University’s Department of Biodiversity, Earth & our atmosphere, the ocean absorbs it and becomes more Environmental Science — Alexis Wiley and Erin Wright — who acidic, making it harder for organisms like pteropods took part in retrieving a donation of 540-million-year-old fossils to grow their shells. Pteropods are a crucial part of the from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and who have been instrumental in inventorying the entire collection. marine food web — a staple for whales, cod, shrimp, krill and more — and changes that impact them impact the entire ocean ecosystem.

Sessa and Academy Gallagher Fellow Rosie Oakes, PhD, analyze both modern and historical specimens from museum collections. Their goal is to determine a baseline of pteropod shell thickness over time and understand how ocean acidification may have affected shell growth. Oakes developed a method to quantify the thickness of the marine fossils from the east coast of North America and pteropod shell with the use of micro-CT scanning, which the Gulf Coastal Plain, as well as Mesozoic ammonites allows the team to reconstruct the climatic conditions from the United Kingdom. The department has received The team also mentors undergraduate students and young that affected ecosystems historically. Understanding how four years of funding for collections improvements women participating in the Academy’s Women In Natural these ecosystems responded to past events allows us to through the Hattersley Family Collections Care and Sciences (WINS) program. Along with David Velinsky and predict how they may respond to the changing conditions Upgrade Fund and two years of funding from the members of the Academy’s educational staff, the Invertebrate in today’s oceans. National Science Foundation (NSF). The goal of the Paleontology team raised funds from Drexel, the Paleontological NSF grant is to digitize, or make available online, the Society and the American Geophysical Union to provide Collection Manager Katy Estes-Smargiassi is responsible collection’s marine invertebrate fossils from Eastern scholarships for six WINS students to attend a geoscience field for caring for, cataloging and digitizing the Invertebrate Pacific localities from the Cenozoic Era, a time during camp in Montana and an environmental science field camp in Paleontology Collection, which is a founding collection which several major global climatic shifts occurred. the Poconos over the past two summers. This year, two WINS at the Academy of Natural Sciences. With at least one This digitization project will enable the Academy’s students will intern as part of the digitization team and will founding member, Thomas Say, contributing fossils of specimens to be analyzed by other researchers from receive scholarships to attend a summer geoscience field camp mollusks and insects beginning in 1812, the collection has around the world to better predict how these organisms in Montana via funding from the NSF digitization project strong representation of Mesozoic and Cenozoic shallow may respond to similar events in the future. described above. 27 28

SPECIMENS from the CENOZOIC ERA that KATY ESTES-SMARGIASSI The has DIGITIZED to help RESEARCHERS 38,515 UNDERSTAND how MARINE Academy ECOSYSTEMS have responded to CLIMATIC CHANGES in the past Collection

TYPE SPECIMENS in

the HISTORIC INVERTEBRATE

PALEONTOLOGY TYPE 5,000 COLLECTION

BIRD SKINS and THOUSANDS

OF PARASITES AND TISSUE

SAMPLES ADDED to the ACADEMY’S 440 ORNITHOLOGY COLLECTION — the first Brazilian birds to be deposited at the Academy since the 1920s

The Academy houses one of the world’s top natural history collections, with over 18 million specimens of plants and animals from around the world. PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS These collections represent a veritable and OVER 100 PRESENTATIONS library of life on Earth. from CENTER FOR ACADEMY 52 SCIENCES STAFF 29 30

Tracing Evolutionary Change

Loads of dark chocolate. Reams of toilet paper. Hundreds of hand warmers. Three snowmobiles and a leaf blower to blast snow off fossil-rich rocks.

Academy Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology Ted Daeschler didn’t pack lightly for his 2018/2019 expedition to Antarctica. 31 32

Finding Fossils at the End of the Earth

Funded by the National Science Foundation, Daescher co- led a team for fossil research and collecting in a targeted and extremely remote region in the Transantarctic Mountains of Southern Victoria Land. He was in search of 390-million-year- old vertebrate fossils from the Aztec Siltstone, specimens that will shed more light on the evolution and ecology of the earliest limbed animals.

Blowing snow and “white-out” conditions kept the team in place for five days and left a thick blanket of new snow on the landscape.

The team spent the first weeks in Antarctica training for the intense fieldwork ahead. They settled at McMurdo Station, a When conditions cleared, the team used snowmobiles to bustling National Science Foundation research facility where access ridges and peaks that protrude through the ice cap to they took classes in field safety, ice travel, crevasse rescue, form the Boomerang Range and the Warren Range. Some of snowmobile repair and operation, environmental impact those rock exposures included the Aztec Siltstone, the 385- mitigation and communications protocols, as well as other to 390-million-year-old rock formation that has produced safety, waste management and emergency management training. Devonian-age fossil fish. The team focused on these rocks and fossils more than previous scientists had been able to do. They Unfortunately the expedition was not without its challenges — found a number of fossiliferous layers within the 390-million- when they first arrived, blowing snow and “white-out” conditions year-old stream deposits of the Aztec Siltstone, containing a kept the team in place for five days and left a thick blanket wide variety of early sharks, acanthodians, placoderms and of new snow on the landscape, including obscuring the rock sarcopterygian fish. Their collections are being curated and outcrops where they would be searching for fossil fish. studied at the Academy. 33

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Taking Responsibility for our Planet

Safeguarding a Stream

It was a sunny day in April 2018 in a peaceful section of Ridley Creek. Bass, trout, sunfish, fallfish, cutlips minnows and common shiners swam along a slow, rippling current. American eels slithered along the stream’s muddy bottom, and mayflies buzzed along the reedy banks.

Suddenly, the water parted and a rubber boot appeared, followed by another, and another. A team of Academy scientists was wading into the river, gear in hand, to capture this tranquil moment in time. They were there thanks to Academy members Lynn and Tony Hitschler, who had invited the Academy to come assess the real health of the stream, how much life it supported, the quality of the water and the biodiversity within the stream. 37 38

Both Tony, who was previously involved with the Nature Conservancy, and Lynn, who is on the board of American Rivers, are members of the Academy’s Lewis and Clark Circle of Giving. As avid fishermen and passionate naturalists, they have been supporting the Academy since the mid-1970s. The Hitschlers are adamant about being good stewards of the environment, including the waters that run through their property, which has been legally protected. They have learned how to plant properly along stream banks to maintain streamside insect populations and have avoided clear cutting to prevent stream bank erosion.

“Every stream goes to a river, In Memory of Van Reiner and rivers go to the oceans,” Lynn Academy Board of Trustees member Van says. “We understand the value of Reiner passed away in June 2019. He joined “It was magical, sticking your hand into the belly of the Board in 2014 and brought with him a stream that has been protected.” mother nature,” Lynn says. “What stood out to us a remarkable reserve of knowledge and were the teaching abilities of the scientists. They were experience gained from a long and successful The Hitschlers invited Academy fish scientists Rich so communicative and helpful at teaching everyone, career in business and a transformative tenure Horwitz, Paul Overbeck and Mark Sabaj to assess and from the very young to the very old.” as CEO of the Science Center. record the species in the stream. They invited friends He offered boundless energy and endless and relatives to bring their children to participate in enthusiasm. He was a delight to work with. the stream electrofishing and to learn from the work. Everyone — from the scientists to the Hitschlers to His influence can be seen in the children — put on waders and gear and got into the museum today and will be the water. The scientists explained how and why felt for years to come. you electrofish a stream, which involves sending an In relating the news, his daughter Rebecca electric current into the water to temporarily stun Even the scientists were surprised at the variety of life they recalled that Van talked about the Academy (but not injure) the fish to assess abundance, density found in the stream. With an abundance of American eels “often and with great affection — he loved and species composition. They made sure everyone (some 2 feet long!), white suckers, rock bass, pumpkinseed the place.” We will miss him very much. Our understood what they were doing and why, and then and redbreast sunfishes, bluegills, minnows, common thoughts and prayers are with Van’s wife, they helped the children scoop fish into nets, handle Shirley, his children and his grandchildren. shiners and many more species, it took the scientists nearly them carefully, identify them, measure them and a full day to assess and record their finds. record the information for science. 39 40

2018 MEMBERS attended the 2018 MEMBERS’ Members’ 1,300 NIGHT EVENT Night

For one night each year, our researchers, scientists and educators welcome members behind the scenes for exciting activities that showcase what the Academy’s experts do every day. In 2018, members met our staff, saw our MEMBERSHIP collections and experienced HOUSEHOLDS the breadth and depth of ACTIVE in 2018 work taking place behind the 6,028 scenes at the museum.

VISITS by MEMBERS

using UNLIMITED FREE 54,828 GENERAL ADMISSION

YEARS OF PUBLICATION for THE

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF

NATURAL SCIENCES, the LONGEST RUNNING 179 SERIAL on NATURAL HISTORY and the ENVIRONMENT published in the Americas 41 42 Statement

Without Donor Without Donor of Activities Operating Revenues and Releases Total Botany at Restrictions Restrictions — 1. Grants and Contracts $1,448 $1,594 $3,042

for the Year Ended 2. Contributions 1,067 958 2,025 June 30, 2019 the Academy: 3. Allocations of Endowment Spending 534 2,536 3,070 (in thousands) from Financial Capital Going Online! 4. Investment Income, Net 328 9 337 5. Auxiliary Enterprises 3,145 – 3,145

6. Other Income 4,696 5 4,701

The Academy’s herbarium holds Operating Revenues Total Revenues $11,218 $5,102 $16,320 some of the oldest and most and Releases Net Assets Released from Restriction 5.738 (5,738) – historically important plant 1 Total Revenues and Releases $16,956 ($636) $16,320 collections in the Americas, 6 with about 1.4 million dried, pressed specimens. With funding from the National Science $ Operating Expenses 16,320 2 Foundation, staff, students and 1. Salaries and Wages $7,471 – $7,471 volunteers have photographed nearly one-third of the plants 2. Employee Benefits 2,057 – 2,057 in our collection and are 5 3. Depreciation and Amortization 534 – 534 3 busy transcribing the data for 4 4. Other Operating Expenses 7,628 – 7,628 each one to be posted online. Total Expenses $18,287 – $18,287 Scientists worldwide will be able Decrease in Net Assets from to access the images and data (1,331) (636) (1,967) Operating Activities for their work in conservation, taxonomy and environmental Operating Expenses science education. Non-operating

Contributions - Endowment and Other Gifts – $7 $7 4 1 Realized/Unrealized Net Gain on Investments, (7) 47 40 Net Endowment Payout and Expenses $18,287 Expenses Related to Frozen Defined (1,789) – (1,789) 210,000 Benefit Pension Plan

BOTANICAL SPECIMENS Other Decreases (26) – (26)

Increase / (Decrease) in Net Assets from PHOTOGRAPHED in ($1,822) 54 ($1,768) 3 2 Non-operating Activities fiscal year 2019 Total Decrease in Net Assets from (3,153) (582) (1,768) Operating Activities

Net Assets, Beginning of Year $5,726 $79,735 $85,461

Net Assets, End of Year $2,573 $79,153 $81,726

Year-End Endowment Market Value (MM) Endowment Growth (in millions) The groundbreaking academic 70 50,000+ department, Biodiversity, 2019 Jun 30 61.880 60 HERBARIUM SPECIMENS Earth & Environmental Science 50 2018 Jun 30 62.198 (BEES), formed upon the TRANSCRIBED and 40 2017 Jun 30 59.741 affiliation of the Academy and ENTERED into ONLINE 30 Drexel University, had a full- DATABASES in 20 2016 Jun 30 55.032 time equivalent enrollment of fiscal year 2019 10 2015 Jun 30 56.380 176 students in 2019. 0 FY FY FY FY FY FY 2014 Jun 30 53.612 14 15 16 17 18 19 43 44

$5,000 to $9,999 Origlio Beverage Emily and Ted Daeschlerv PECO Mrs. Nancy B. Davisv v Sheila and Myron Bassman Pfizer, Inc. Rodney D. Day IIIv Catherwood Family Fund The Philadelphia Foundation Jane I. Earlev v Susan and Cummins Catherwood Post Brothers Elizabeth P. McLean Charitable Fund The Charles Wentz Carter Gretchen and Jay Rileyv Suzanne and Mark Eveland Thank You Memorial Foundation Dr. John P. Schmidt Mrs. June P. Felley The CHG Charitable Trust The Scholler Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Foulke Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback Foundation Ivy Silver and Steven Leshner Joanne T. Greenspunvt v The Christopher Ludwick Foundation v On behalf of the Academy’s Board of Trustees, we wish to United Healthcare Jane and Paul Heintz The Connelly Foundation Veritable, LP Mr. and Mrs. W. Anthony Hitschlerv recognize and thank those supporters who contributed to the Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation Victor-Edsall Family Fund J.H.D. Gift Fund The Ford Family Foundation Suzanne and Robert Welsh M&T Bank Pamela and David B. Ford Mr. and Mrs. James W. Zug Ms. Dagmar E. McGillv Academy between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019. Your generosity v Ms. Elizabeth H. Gemmill Timothy Nugent and Rebecca Calder-Nugentv The Grace S. and Barbara Oldenhoffv helps to fund the Academy’s many research and education v $2,500 to $4,999 W. Linton Nelson Foundation Pennoni Family Foundation Gretchen and Jay Riley Gift Fund Affleck Family Charitable Trust Annettet and Chuck Pennoni programs, and we are tremendously grateful for your support. v Mrs. Henry F. Harris Mr. and Mrs. John A. Affleck Philadelphia Shell Clubv v Jun Huangpu and Xia Li Mrs. Carolyn R. Aller Cindy and Katie Pizziketti v Patricia and John Imbesi Mr. and Mrs. Pierce Archer Renewal by Andersen of Greater Philadelphia v The James W. & Deborah C. Zug Fund Jean G. Bodine Republic Bank v John & Dorothy Schmidt Family Foundation Sheryl and Bill Bullitt v v Sean Rhoads and Keri Fisher Marilyn Fishman and James MacElderry v $200,000 and up $25,000 to $49,999 Edward A. Montgomery Jr. Mr. and Mrs. R. Kent Cadwalader Mrs. Edward Starr III The George & Elizabeth Gephart Neubauer Family Foundation Jenny Rose and Gus Carey The Cotswold Foundationv Anonymous Stevens & Lee Charitable Fund Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer and Joe Neubauer The Cruit Family Charitable Fund Kline & Specter, P.C. Anonymousv Stout Risius Ross LLC Mr. and Mrs. George W. Gephart Jr. Suzanne and Charles W. Cruit v New York Shell Club Mr. and Mrs. James L. Van Alen Martha H. and I. Wistar Morris III Blue Sky Family Foundation Mrs. Nancy G. Harrisv v William Penn Foundation Abbie and Patrick Dean Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundationv v Ellen Harvey and Tad G. Sperry The Kidogo Foundation v Cynthia and Martin Heckscher The Legnini Family $100,000 to $199,999 v The Hess Foundation, Inc. Courtney and Page Leidy Anonymousv The Jacqueline M. Griffith Fund The Lenfest Foundationv The Charles E. Ellis Grant and Jane C. MacElree Family Foundation Linda and Tom McCarthyv Scholarship Fundv Karen and Wayne Lattuca The McLean Contributionshipv The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundationv Mrs. Jane C. MacElree Ms. Sandra Lee McLeanv The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund Katie and Bill McNabbv $50,000 to $99,999 at Modern Group LTD. Morgan Lewis & Bockius Mrs. Elizabeth P. McLeanv Anonoymous (2) National Science Foundation Ms. Alexandra U. Moede v Dawn and Fen Pate Jane and John Bales v Theresa and Ranney Moran Mrs. Lucille Vanderbilt Patet Boeing v Mr. and Mrs. Seymour S. Preston III v Amy Branch and Jeff Benolielv Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Peck The Rorer Foundation, Inc. Jacqui and Dave Griffith The PFM Group Vertex, Inc. v Hamilton Family Charitable Trustv The Philadelphia Cultural Fund The Wayne and Karen Lattuca Leo Model Foundation, Inc.v Putnam and Amy Coes Family Charitable Fund v Charitable Fund Marshall-Reynolds Foundation v Mr. A. Morris Williams Jr. v Mr. Allen J. Model and Mr. and Mrs. Gerald B. Rorer t v Dr. Roberta E. Gausasv Mr. and Mrs. Herbert T. Rorer v Minturn T. Wright IIIv $10,000 to $24,999 Judith Soltz and Richard Belas Soltz/Belas Fund 2004 Carita Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. John Jeming Sorokov Tara Acharya and Devesh Raj Mrs. Corinne J. Stahlv Mary and Peter Austen Mrs. Joly W. Stewartv Joseph F. Baker and William Shaw Mulherinv Urban Outfitters Jeffrey A. Beachell Vandy Charitable Foundation The Brodsky Foundation Bob Victor and Alexandra Edsall Lois and Julian Brodsky Mrs. Jane W. Walker Amy and R. Putnam Coes IIIv Nancy and Kenneth Warrenv Dana and Neil Cohenv Wawa, Inc. Comcast Corporation West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. Patty and Rob Delany t Western Pest Services Deceased Ms. Maude de Schauenseev v Sustainers Society Ralph C. Eagle Jr., M.D.v 45 46

Malfer Foundation $500 to $999 Doris S. Schoenerv John Cramer and Kristin Howard Elizabeth R. McLeanv Drs. Karen and Robert Sharrar Marie and Gerard Daly v Merz Family Foundation Anonymous Sprague Foundationv Susan Dando and Alexandre Costabile v Mr. J. Frederick Merz Jr. Ms. Ellen Anderson and Mr. Brantly Rudisill Christina and Marty Stipicevic Dr. and Mrs. James L. Dannenbergv Karen and William Mestichelli Drs. Robert and Marie Benz Mr. and Mrs. James Craig Stretch Jr. Randall C. Deike and Kimberly Nicoll Mr. and Mrs. John S. Middleton Geoffrey Berwind Wescott Financial Advisory Group LLC Nancy Denenberg and Jonathan Brand Lisa and Jeff Miller Rosanne and John Bornholdt John Whitenight and Fred LaValley Diana DePaul Daniel Moerman and Claudine Farrand Marilyn and David Bossard Mrs. Margaret H. Wolcottv Robert Derogatis and Amber Baer Mr. and Mrs. James O. Moorev The Brind Foundation Catherine A. Worrall Nina and David Diefenbach Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Moore Ira Brind and Stacey Spector Harry J. DiGiacomo Jr. and Dr. and Mrs. Donald Morel The Buck Family Fund $175 to $499 Kristen DiGiacomo Mr. and Mrs. Hugh G. Moultonv Elinor Hosterman Buck and Sophie B. Donaghyv v Ms. Diane L. Myer James M. Buck III Anonymous Marian and Robert Dondero Paul Nemeth and Jean Floodv Christopher B. Chandor Joann and Frederick Ackler Denise Dooner Mr. and Mrs. John Arthur Nyheimv The Cleveland Family Charitable Fund Sabrina and Ryan Ade Jacob Ebin and Judith Katz v Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. O’Connorv Robert and Nancy Cleveland George Ahern and Marge McEntee Mr. Jeffrey E. Edelmanv Mr. Joseph A. O’Connor Jr. Barbara Cobb Christine and Alfred Altomari Alexander Egervary and Mariam Safi v v Joseph O’Hare and Wallace Beardv Carol and Richard Collier Jo and Dennis Ambrose Karen and Alex Eifler Mr. and Mrs. Lanny R. Pattenv Maria and Barry Craze Dr. Elizabeth Bales and Eileen and Lee Mathias Charitable Fund Miguel Perez and Melissa Morris Rhoda and Michael Danziger Mr. Michael Dell’Angelo Drs. Howard J. Eisen and Judith E. Wolf Pew Center for Arts and Heritage Cynthia and Keith Day Lisa and Samuel Barra Mollie Elkman and Daniel Gerson Mr. and Mrs. George Putnam IIIv Evelyn and Marc Duvivier Dolores Barrett Dr. Lauren Ellman and Dr. Matjaz Jogan Margaret and Tom Ralphv Natalie and Alan Eisen Phyllis Barsky Tiffany and Kurt Erler t Ann and Frank Reed Frances S. and Robert W. Ellis January Bartle and Stephen Starr Mrs. Alexandra Esteyv v v Roberta and Saul Epstein Ellen Baxter and Robert Kavash Neal and Heidi Feigles Michael Reed and Yalta Gilmore-Reed Lee Faden and Temi Allen $1,000 to $2,499 Drs. Pamela and Peter Freydv Eileen and Rick Bazelonv v Rosalind Remer and James Green Jerald Fagliano and Mara Natkins Ms. Helen H. Ford v v v William J. Frezel Kristin and Jonathan Beatty v Anonymous Forney Family Foundation Dr. Ann F. Rhoads and Mr. Paul L. Rhoads Dr. Jay L. Federman and Ms. Sylvia R. Beck Dr. Robin Gallagher and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Berger Franny and Franny Abbott Mrs. Marilyn Forneyv Jennifer Merves Robbins and Brian Robbins Lindsay Fiesthumel and Tristan Michaleski v Mrs. Karen Gallagher Kathleen and John Berkowitz The Albert Trust Vernon Francis and Camille Paglia Bonnie and Elliott Rosenberg Albert Filemyr Mr. and Mrs. A. Cope Garrett Dr. Richard Bierregaard Ms. Sarah S. Alfadl Steven Furber Andrea Rowe and Benjamin Stahl Kathy and Chad Finkenbinder v Giant Kenneth S. Blackney and Robert R. Ditto Dr. Valerie A. Arkoosh and Frank Gill and Sally Conyne Julie Stone and Michael Rueter Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Foster III Mr. Jeffrey T. Harbisonv Rufe Family Fund Mrs. Page R. Gowen Mr. Andrew Blittman and Ms. Linda Zaleski Frank and Terry Foster Family Fund Gilroy & Lillian Roberts v Tamar and Marshal Granor Barbara and Clarke Blynn v Mrs. Ellen Asplundh Charitable Foundationv The Honorable and Mrs. W. Hart Rufe III Susan and Kenneth Frank Austelle Foundation Jane and Scott Satterfield Lisa K. Hastings Coren and Lawrence Bomback Drs. Barbarat and Len Frankv Scott Goldman and Maryalice Cheney v v v Alice and Peter Hausmann Mr. and Mrs. William J. Bonner Jr. Drs. Gudrun and T. Peter Bennett v Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Scheller Chanda and Todd Franzen Dr. Janice T. Gordon v v v Katherine and Fredrik Hiebert Lauren and Peter Brennan Peter A. Benoliel and Willo Carey Mr. and Mrs. Richard Greenawalt Mary Jane and Albert Schilling Christine and Kenneth Frascella Bluestone Foundationv Ms. Bonnie Schorske Dr. Lesley A. Hughes Mr. and Mrs. William R. Brydges Nancy Frederickv Drs. Vivian and Mark Greenberg v Mr. Pemberton Hutchinson Philip Buck and Lisa Mostovoy v Susan and Mark Brousseau Elizabeth and Henry Harris Anne and Fritz Schumann Beth and Jerrold Frezel v v Robert L. Kaplan Laura T. Bullitt Mr. and Mrs. William C. Buck Dr. Gail W. Hearnv Dr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Schuyler Kelly and Peter Fry Dr. Charles Lane Nancie and Theodore Burkett Capital Impact Partners Nancy and Alan Hirsig Joanne and Bruce Shanzer Robin and Glen Gaddy v David Lipson Elizabeth Buza and Sophia Cardenas v Dr. Erica Carpenter and Mr. Dennis Hummel Joseph Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. W. Roderick Gagne Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoyv Dr. Whitney Cabey and Mr. Hassan Moss Mr. Robert Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. Scott M. Jenkins Randall Siebert Judi and Selig Galter Mr. Preston Luitweiler Elizabeth and Charles Carmalt Cheryl and Radcliffe Cheston The Jewish Community Foundation Dr. Randi Leavitt and Alexandria Garrity and v Mr. and Mrs. William G. Lyons Dr. Jamie Cashell and Mr. Thomas Martin The Cliffe and Cheryl Cheston Mr. and Mrs. Craig N. Johnsonv Dr. Robert E. Silverman Elizabeth McCampbell Charitable Fund Karen and Stuart Skinner Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Madeira Jr. Center For Creative Works John Garrityv Mr. and Mrs. John G. Johnson Jr. v v v The Margaret Wolcott Fund Gordon Chaplin and Sarah Teale Mr. and Mrs. Tristram C. Colket Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Karr Jr. Sidney and Stewart Spahr Dr. and Mrs. Jon K. Gelhaus Angela and James Montgomery Karen and Michael Cherubini Colocation America Katzenbach Family Charitable Fund Jamie Stewart Jacqueline and Daniel Gillard v Lori and James Murphy Cheryl Chetuck v Cornell University CALS Brooke and Tom Katzenbach Patricia Tyson Stroud Lisa and Will Givner Arthur E. Newbold IVv Suzanne Chiavari The Daeschler Family Fund Kent-Van Alen Fund at Schwab Charitable Anna and Menno Tas Elizabeth Glaum-Lathbury and Meg Clifton North and Victor North Joan and Joel Chinitzv Mr. B. Robert DeMento Kenneth Kulak and Katherine Hovdev Mr. and Mrs. L. Pierre Teillon Jr. Scott Cowperthwait v North American Association Lily and Ivy Cicilia Gene and Charles Dilks John Lehman and Christine Carlson John A. Terrill and Mary Jane Barrett v for Environmental Education Alena and Joseph Cileone Mrs. Edward V. Dillon Mr. Carter R. Leidyv Mrs. Susan Pepper Treadway Barbara and Michael Perilstein Mr. Arthur M. Cohnv Mrs. Sandra Drayer and Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tregerman The Honorable Calvin S. Drayerv Dr. and Mrs. Peter D. Utsinger Laura Raab Tessa and Daniel Connelly Joanna McNeil Lewis v v v Marlene and Joseph Ramsay Michael Conway and Gabrielle Hoffer Mr. and Mrs. William B. Eagleson Jr. Maxine S. Lewis Signe Wilkinson and Jon Landau Shirley and VantReiner David W. Cooper Mr. and Mrs. V. Richard Eales Sarah and Ted Lodge Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wilmerding Barbara Edelstein Jean and John Witmer Remer Green Family Fund Shirley and Scott Cooper Eric Luthi t Deceased Eleanor and Thomas Elkintonv Richard B. Worley and Leslie Anne Miller Mr. and Mrs. David A. Rusenko Nora and Benjamin Corbett Susan and Samuel Madeira v Sustainers Society 47 48

Aaron Goldblatt and Laura Fostert Bob and Betsy Lukens Tracy Russo and Mitchell Kelly Ms. Susan Goldenberg Paula and James MacCombiev Ronald Ruth Howard Goldfine and William and Lindsay Madway Roberto Ruzzi Norah Johnston-Goldfinev Jennifer and Sean Malloy Carrie and Edward Rydesky Wendy and Gregory Gosfield Robin Mann Dr. and Mrs. Louis E. Sagev Barbara Gray and Kevin Crandley Mrs. Rose M. Marinarov Janis Sanders and Bill Sanders Tucker C. Greshv Dr. Stephanie Marks and Mr. Terry Appel Sherri Sanders Patrick Griffin and Eleanor Griffin Roberta A. Martin Mr. Steven E. Saundersv Dr. William T. Grizos and Mrs. Joan Neubertv Mason Family Charitable Account Michael V. Scalzo Mr. Joseph Gruber Charles E. Mason Susan and Dennis Schaeffer Maryanne Gsell and Timothy Logue Eileen and Lee Mathias Elizabeth Schumacher Matt Hagarty and Elizabeth Strauss Maura McCarthy and Joseph Barber Meghan and Jeffrey Schweitzer Stuart Haimowitz and Arlene Fisk Debra McCarty and Richard Stasiorowskiv Kathleen and Frank Seidmanv Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hamilton Maureen McCauley Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Shaeffer Mary Alice Hartsock and Nathaniel Bordy Jane McCaully and Rachel Morgan Dr. and Mrs. Paul Shamanv Stephen Harvey and Marie Weaver Janet and Michael McClure Brian Sherman and Sandra Lau Ellen and Jay Hass Theresa and Stephen McCorry Dr. Carol Shiffrin and Mr. Arnold Shiffrin Patrick Henwood Dr. Diane McDowell and Mr. Seth McDowell Cathy and Bill Sieglv Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Henzev Jae McManus and Fiano George-McManus Rachel Silliman Cohen and Susan and Leonard Herring JoAnne McMonigle and Caitlin Cuellar Tiffany Silliman Cohen Brenda and Alex Herzlinger Holly and Anthony McWilliams Mrs. Matthew Slapv Lois V. Hillv Daryl Mecklem and Kathy Howardv Kristan and Jeffrey Slotterback Suzanne Hillman and Lisa Hoffmeister Kate Mellinger and Erich Falke Mr. Robert G. Smithv Margaret and Thomas Hogan Laura Merkin and Arnold Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Marc J. Sonnenfeld Joy Horwitz and Steven Fram Alex Miller Catherine and Frederick Spackman Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hucker Deirdre Moes and Bob Spencer Mae J. and Timothy Sterrettv Peggy and Melvin Huffmanv Mr. Carolyn Montgomery Mr. Reid P. F. Stuntz Marianne Hulme Barbara B. and Bruce F. Morgan Erica and Ryan Szadyr Mr. Thomas M. Hyndman Jr.v Peggy Morrison T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Honorary Gifts Memorial Gifts Thomas W. Jacobson Ryan Mrazik and Julie Schwartz Fawn Tenenbaum Sabrina and Ryan Ade, in honor of Scarlett’s 3rd Birthday Alan Barstow Ph.D., in memory of Thomas C. Clarke Paige and Ray Jaffe Drs. Fran and Douglas Nadelv Antonia and Claudio Terjanian Mrs. Sylva Baker, in honor of the Library Ms. Linda V. Ellsworth, in memory of Lew Klein Neil Jennings Dan Negoianu and Katya Rascovsky The Bierregaard-Dolan Fund Emily and Ted Daeschlerv, in honor of Ned Gilmore and Fred Mullison Mr. and Mrs. A. Cope Garrett, in memory John F. Kennedy Behavioral Health Paul Nestor and Kathy Jones-Nestorv Theodore and Nancie Burkett Fund Dr. Douglass Dalton, in honor of Joseph Baker of Edward Drinker Cope Michelle Keiser and Jennifer Flocco Mary and Charles Newcomb Joan and William Thomas Mr. B. Robert DeMento, in honor of Robert M. Peck* Estelle and Stephen King, in memory of David R. King Barbara C. and Frank S. Keith Jennifer and Andrew Newcomb Vanessa and Bob Tracy Mrs. Janice Diamond-Wolft, in honor of Joseph Baker’s Birthday Mrs. Rose M. Marinarov, in memory of Felix F. Marinaro Dr. and Mrs. Zeb Vance Kendrick Mary Kay Nicolov Drs. Renata and Oleh Tretiakv Mr. and Mrs. A. Cope Garrett, in honor of Nate Rice and Julie Reich Ms. Sandra Lee McLeanv, in memory Drs. Susan and Carl Kingv Dr. Harvey Nisenbaum and Marnie and David Unruh Mr. and Mrs. George W. Gephart Jr., in honor of Jason Weckstein and Nate Rice of William L. McLean III Kelly Kleinhandler and Madeline Curren Mrs. Sylvia Nisenbaumv Shelia and Sanjay Upadhyay Lindsay Griffith, in honor of David Griffith Lisa and Jeff Miller, in memory of Van Reiner Marlena and Soloman Kleit Sarah H. Norrisv Upsalquitch Fund Mr. and Mrs. James Harbison, in honor of Robert M. Peck* and Ted Daeschler* Ms. Sara Nerken, in memory of Fredi Kronenberg April and Chris Kloxin Patricia O’Donnell and Carlos Canon Ms. Mary J. Vaux Ellen Harvey and Tad G. Sperryv, in honor of Pierce and Cindy Archer Philadelphia Shell Clubv, in memory of Robert Robertson Jennifer Knobbs Katy and Doug O’Malley Karen and Alexander Vegega Ellen and Jay Hass, in honor of Robert M. Peck* and Ted Daeschler* Mary Jane and Albert Schillingv, in memory Nyla Koncurat and Sara Hernandez Mary Lisa O’Neill and Daniel Powers Jami and Matthew Vibbert Joy Horwitz and Steven Fram, in honor of Roland Wall, of Robert Robertson Dr. and Mrs. Richard C. Kovach Jeannine and André Payne Gale and Walter Wahlv Stefanie Kroll and Carol Collier Mr. Keith E. Shearer, in memory Ms. Lois Kuter Sarah Peoples and Jacob Roller Margaret and Bob Wallis Janet and Michael McClure, in honor of Dr. Marie Kurz of Samuel S. Haldeman Rachel Labush and Abraham Pachikara Matthew Peters and Sarah Campagno Kathleen and John Walsh Monica Miller and Brian Hogan, in honor of Ned Gilmore Diana and Peter Lang Amy Pethick and Eric Gravesv Katherine Wang and William Miller Sally and Michael Newbold, in honor of C. B. Newbold In Memory of Frances S. Ellis and Albert Visco Michele Laporta Robert Pettit Kristin and Daniel Wesley William Roman, in honor of Ted Daeschler* Samuel Lathrop and Kathleen Maloney Christine and Samuel Reeves Christopher Wild and Sonia Martin Kathleen Carbonetta Andrea Rowe and Benjamin Stahl, in honor of George Gephart William Lautenberger and Joanna Branch Laura Rivera and Marc Alfarano Dr. Paul Wileyto and Ms. Carol A. Krawczyk Danuta and Reno Carbonetta Andrea Rowe and Benjamin Stahl, in honor of all my colleagues Robert Lawler and Thomas Lawler Robert Wallis Charitable Fund David Wilmerding The Elizabeth C. Srour Rev Trust Dr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Schuylerv, in honor of Elizabeth McLean Janine and Mike Ledoux Monica Romanko and Robert Monsees Mrs. Penelope Wilsonv Robert W. Ellis Ms. Marjorie Shiekman, in honor of Ted Daeschler* Joel Levitt and Nancy Boxer Donna and Joel Root Mrs. Carol M. Winkler and Meridith Hurd Fawn Tenenbaum, in honor of Eve Tenenbaum Irene and Jeffrey Lin Ahmara and Elvin Ross Mr. John B. Winklerv Barbara C. and Frank S. Keith The Brind Foundation, in honor of David Griffith Mr. Thomas Lloyd Eric Rugart Ms. Eileen Wirtchafterv Elizabeth C. Srour Joan and William Thomas, in honor of William Stone Post Loretta and Tom Wittv Margaretta T. Walton, in honor of Betsy and Barry Rorer Kimberley and Charles Wright Mrs. Ethel Nalle Wetherill, in honor of Robert M. Peck* Dr. and Mrs. David M. Wrightv Mr. A. Morris Williams Jr.v, in honor of Moe Preston Carol and Robert Youngv t Deceased v Sustainers Society 49 50

Leadership Circles Leidy Circle President’s Circle Mr. and Mrs. John S. Middleton Lisa and Jeff Miller v Leadership gifts play a critical role Sheila and Myron Bassman Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. James O. Moorev v in sustaining the Academy’s scientific Ms. Elizabeth H. Gemmill Franny and Franny Abbott Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Moore research programs, which explore today’s The CHG Charitable Trust Dr. Valerie A. Arkoosh and Dr. and Mrs. Donald Morel v v most significant questions in environmental Mrs. Henry F. Harris Mr. Jeffrey T. Harbison Mr. and Mrs. Hugh G. Moultonv science, biodiversity and evolution. Patricia and John Imbesi Mrs. Ellen Asplundh Ms. Diane L. Myer v To learn more about giving at the Leadership Karen and Wayne Lattuca Jane and John Bales Mr. and Mrs. John Arthur Nyheimv v v Circles level, please contact our Office of Edward A. Montgomery Jr. Drs. Gudrun and T. Peter Bennett Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. O’Connorv v v Institutional Advancement at 215-405-5079 Theresa and Ranney Moran Peter A. Benoliel and Willo Carey Mr. Joseph A. O’Connor Jr. or [email protected]. Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer and Joe Neubauer Susan and Mark Brousseau Joseph O’Hare and Wallace Beardv v Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Pestronk Mr. and Mrs. William C. Buck Mr. and Mrs. Lanny R. Pattenv v Jefferson Circle Gretchen and Jay Riley Dr. Erica Carpenter and Barbara and Michael Perilstein Dr. John P. Schmidt Mr. Robert Carpenter Cindy and Katie Pizziketti Jacqui and Dave Griffith Ivy Silver and Steven Leshner Cheryl and Radcliffe Cheston Mr. and Mrs. George Putnam IIIv Mrs. Jane C. MacElree v Suzanne and Robert Welsh Mr. and Mrs. Tristram C. Colket Jr. Margaret and Tom Ralphv Mr. Allen J. Model and Shirley and Scott Cooper Michael Reed and Yalta Gilmore-Reedv Dr. Roberta E. Gausasv Lewis and Clark Circle Mr. B. Robert DeMento Rosalind Remer and James Green Ms. Alexandra U. Moede v Gene and Charles Dilks v v Dr. Ann F. Rhoads and Mr. Paul L. Rhoads Mr. and Mrs. Seymour S. Preston III Mr. and Mrs. John A. Affleck v Mrs. Edward V. Dillon Jennifer Merves Robbins and Brian Robbins Constance and Sankey Williamsv Mrs. Carolyn R. Allerv Mrs. Sandra Drayer and t v Dr. Robert and Mrs. Harriet H. Robertson Mr. and Mrs. Pierce Archer v The Honorable Calvin S. Drayer v v Bonnie and Elliott Rosenberg Joseph F. Baker and William Shaw Mulherin v Darwin Circle Mr. and Mrs. William B. Eagleson Jr. Andrea Rowe and Benjamin Stahl Jean G. Bodinev Barbara Edelstein v Tara Acharya and Devesh Raj v Julie Stone and Michael Rueter Sheryl and Bill Bullitt Eleanor and Thomas Elkintonv Mary and Peter Austen Jane and Scott Satterfield Mr. and Mrs. R. Kent Cadwalader Neal and Heidi Feigles Jeffrey A. Beachell Anne and Fritz Schumann Jenny Rose and Gus Carey v v Ms. Helen H. Ford Amy Branch and Jeff Benoliel v Joanne and Bruce Shanzer Susan and Cummins Catherwood v Mrs. Marilyn Forney Joseph Shapirov Lois and Julian Brodsky Suzanne and Charles W. Cruit v Frank Gill and Sally Conyne Dr. Randi Leavitt and Amy and R. Putnam Coes III Emily and Ted Daeschlerv Scott Goldman and Maryalice Cheney v Abbie and Patrick Dean v Dr. Robert E. Silverman Mrs. Nancy B. Davis v Dr. Janice T. Gordon Karen and Stuart Skinner Patty and Rob Delany Rodney D. Day IIIv v Mr. and Mrs. Richard Greenawalt Sidney and Stewart Spahrv Ralph C. Eagle Jr., M.D. Jane I. Earlev v Drs. Vivian and Mark Greenberg Jamie Stewart Marilyn Fishman and James MacElderry Suzanne and Mark Eveland v Latasha and Clifford Harling Mrs. Joly W. Stewartv Ellen Harvey and Tad G. Sperry Mrs. June P. Felley Elizabeth and Henry Harris v Cynthia and Martin Heckscherv Patricia Tyson Stroud Pamela and David B. Ford Dr. Gail W. Hearnv Jun Huangpu and Xia Li Anna and Menno Tas Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Foulke Nancy and Alan Hirsig Courtney and Page Leidy John A. Terrill and Mary Jane Barrett Vernon Francis and Camille Paglia v v Mr. Dennis Hummel Mrs. Susan Pepper Treadway Linda and Tom McCarthy Steven Furber v Mr. and Mrs. Scott M. Jenkins Katie and Bill McNabb vt Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tregerman Joanne T. Greenspun v t Mr. and Mrs. Craig N. Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Peter D. Utsinger Mrs. Lucille Vanderbilt Pate Mr. and Mrs. W. Anthony Hitschlerv v Mr. and Mrs. John G. Johnson Jr. Signe Wilkinson and Jon Landauv Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Peck Mrs. Elizabeth P. McLeanv v Mr. and Mrs. George W. Karr Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald B. Rorer v Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wilmerding Ms. Sandra Lee McLean v t v Kenneth Kulak and Katherine Hovde Mr. and Mrs. Herbert T. Rorer v Jean and John Witmer Martha H. and I. Wistar Morris III v v Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lapham Richard B. Worley and Leslie Anne Miller Judith Soltz and Richard Belas Timothy Nugent and Rebecca Calder-Nugentv v John Lehman and Christine Carlson Mr. and Mrs. John Jeming Soroko v Barbara Oldenhoff v v Mr. Carter R. Leidy Mrs. Corinne J. Stahl t Annette and Chuck Pennoni Joanna McNeil Lewis Bob Victor and Alexandra Edsall v Sean Rhoads and Keri Fisher Maxine S. Lewis Mrs. Jane W. Walker v Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Scheller Sarah and Ted Lodge Nancy and Kenneth Warrenv Mrs. Edward Starr III Eric Luthi Mr. and Mrs. James L. Van Alen Susan and Samuel Madeira v Minturn T. Wright III Mr. J. Frederick Merz Jr. Karen and William Mestichelli

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1812 Society Members Named Endowment Funds John and Marjorie Foster Fund for Ornithology For many years, the Academy’s most Endowment funds provide a source of John J. and Anna H. Gallagher Fellowship dedicated supporters have invested in our sustainable support for a variety of Academy Joseph Leidy Memorial Fund future by including the Academy in their initiatives, from postdoctoral research to our Leidy Sculpture Preservation Fund estate plans. The Academy’s Board of Trustees annual lecture series. If you are interested Library Acquisition established the 1812 Society in honor of our in making a gift to a named endowment or Library Technology Fund most forward-thinking supporters whose establishing one in your name, please contact Macaleer Ornithology Expedition Fund contributions have sustained the Academy’s the Office of Institutional Advancement at Malacology Endowment growth for the past two centuries. 215-299-1182 or email [email protected]. Maurice Heckscher Endowment Fund for Ornithology Anonymous (3) Albert Earl Gilbert Endowment McLean Acquisition Fund v Anonymous The Albert M. Greenfield Technology McLean Annual Fund Endowment Joseph F. Baker Upgrade Endowment Mildred Eckert Book Fund t Vivian K. Blank Anonymous Discretionary Fund Mineral Sale Fund Endowment v Jean G. Bodine Anonymous Strategic Initiatives Endowment Mineralogy Endowment v Joan and Joel Chinitz Böhlke Memorial Endowment Morgan Hebard Fund t Donald Cleaver Botany Curator Endowment Nolan Binding Fund t Mr. Luther A. Clement Botany General Endowment Ornithology Endowment t Walter Coley Botany Schuyler Internship Endowment Fund Patrick Center for Environmental Amy and George Dick Brooke Dolan Archivist Endowment Research Endowment Lenora and Brooke Dolan Carol Spawn Endowment Fund President’s Initiative Strategic Fund Margaret Chew Dolan Chair of Environmental Richard Hopper Day Memorial Fund Thomas Dolan IV Initiatives Endowment Robert and Happy Robertson Fund Thomas Dolan V Chaplin Chair of Ichthyology Ruth Patrick Chair in v Jane I. Earle Charlotte C. Stokes Art Environmental Science t Frances and Bob Ellis Collection Endowment Schuyler Herbarium Internship Lin Floyd Cheryl Beth Silverman Memorial Fund Endowment Fund t v Drs. Barbara and Len Frank Clark Operating Endowment Science Publications Endowment t Julia W. Frick Center for Systematic Biology and The Sherry E. Weiss Fund for Outside In Mr. and Mrs. George W. Gephart Jr. Evolution Endowment Strategic Initiatives Endowment Frank Gill and Sally Conyne de Schauensee Endowment Fund T. Charleton Henry Memorial t Mrs. S. Page Hartley The Dolan Initiative for Innovative Theodore J. Cohn Endowment v Cynthia and Martin Heckscher Water Research Vertebrate Paleontology Special Fund v Lois V. Hill The Don and Virginia Eckleberry Vertebrate Zoology Fund Mr. Edward A. Markart Jr. Endowment for Wildlife Art VIREO Endowment Ms. Jacqueline Markart Dr. Charles Hodge IV Memorial Endowment The William L. McLean III Endowment v Mrs. Elizabeth P. McLean Education Endowment Fellowship Fund Daniel Moerman and Claudine Farrand Elizabeth and James Abraham Garfield Rehn Young People’s Explorer Series Mr. Robert M. Peckv Endowment Fund Mrs. Elizabeth P. Petit Entomology Endowment Mr. and Mrs. Seymour S. Preston IIIv Estuarian Research Center Endowment Mr. Francis Rasmus Exhibits Endowment Ann and Frank Reed Fellow of the Academy Chair Endowment Sean Rhoads and Keri Fisherv Florence R. Foerderer Endowment Fund Peg and Robert Ridgely Frank and Ruth Patrick Endowment Fund Dr. Robertt and Mrs. Harriet H. Robertson Grace Tees Herbarium Maintenance Fund Phyllis and Gary Rosenberg Hattersley Family Foundation Collections Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Ruggeri Care Upgrade Fund Dr. John P. Schmidt Hayden Memorial Geological Fund Pamela and Philippe Serra Hazel and Radclyffe Roberts Fund Ivy Silver and Steven Leshner Henry A. Pilsbry Chair of Malacology Carol and Art Silverman Horace and Marie Richards Fund Patricia Tyson Stroudv Ichthyology Endowment Minturn T. Wright IIIv Invertebrate Paleontology Endowment Jessup-McHenry Fund Estate Gifts Jane and John Bales Endowed Fund Joe Cadbury Scholarships Fund Caroline B. Wittman

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Board of Trustees As of April 1, 2020 Matching Gift Gifts to the Library Organizations and Collections Peter A. Austen American Water Elana Benamy and Ray Scheinfeld John F. Bales III BNY Mellon Wealth Management The Center for Molluscan Studies Dell Florence Fearrington Jeffrey A. Beachell GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Jefferson University - East Falls Amy L. Branch IBM Corporation - Matching Gifts Program Martha Kirby Erica L. Carpenter, Ph.D. Johnson & Johnson Matching Gifts Program Ann and Martin Avery Snyder JPMorgan Chase Foundation Amy M. Coes Merck Partnership for Giving Gifts in Kind Scott A. Cooper, Ph.D. Radian Group, Inc. CRW Graphics Maureen Craig Vanguard Matching Gift Program Emily and Ted Daeschlerv Veritable, LP Abbie Dean Famous 4th Street Cookie Company William Penn Foundationv Robert J. Delany Longwood Gardens v Suzanne Eveland Government and Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Peck Matthew Ross John A. Fry Research Grants Wawa, Inc. David E. Griffith Barnegat Bay Partnership Battelle Memorial Institute Latasha D. Harling, CCP, SHRM-SCP Bishop Museum Ellen D. Harvey Chesapeake Conservancy, Inc Jun Huangpu, Ph.D., MBA Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Cornell University Paul Jensen, Ph.D. Delaware Riverkeeper Network Page R. Leidy Eastman Chemical Company Sandra L. McLean Elkhorn Slough Foundation The Academy would especially like to thank Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds Allen J. Model our staff and volunteers who have made General Electric Michael H. Reed, Esq. Geological Society of America gifts to support our work this year. Photo Credits The Institute of Museum and Library Services Gerald B. Rorer

Louisiana State University David Rusenko Cover: Jocelyn Sessa, PhD, hikes upriver in the Transylvania region National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Ivy E. Silver of Romania to collect 70 million year old fossils. Photo by Meng Jin, National Park Service American Museum of Natural History National Science Foundation Judith E. Soltz, Esq. The Nature Conservancy John J. Soroko Inside Front Cover: Greg Aaron/ANS took this photo while New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection flying over Kodiak Island, Alaska; Page 2: Jeff Fusco for ANS, Robert S. Victor New Jersey Sea Grant (NOAA) Episcopal Community Services; Pages 3–4: Kimberly Godfrey/ New York Botanical Garden ANS; Page 5: Kimberly Godfrey/ANS and Drexel Environmental Northern Arizona University Science Leadership Academy; Page 6: Kimberly Godfrey/ANS; Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Page 7: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Page 8: Drexel Emeritus Trustees Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development Environmental Science Leadership Academy; Pages 9–10: Melissa Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Cynthia P. Heckscher Bross/ANS; Page 11: Joseph Heiczinger/ANS, Melissa Bross/ANS; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Edward A. Montgomery, Jr. Page 12: Joseph Heiczinger/ANS, Melissa Bross/ANS; Pages 13–14: The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Melissa Bross/ANS; Pages 15–16: Greg Aaron/ANS; Page 17: Cate Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management I. Wistar Morris III Aaron/ANS, Marina Potapova/ANS; Page 18: Greg Aaron/ANS, State of Connecticut Seymour S. Preston III Cate Aaron/ANS, Marina Potapova/ANS; Pages 19–22: Greg Aaron/ State of Nevada Minturn T. Wright III ANS; Pages 23–27: Five Five Collective for ANS; Page 28: Mike Stroud Water Research Center Servedio/ANS; Page 29–32: Ted Daeschler/ANS; Page 33: Jason University of Utah Weckstein/ANS; Page 34: Five Five Collective for ANS; Pages 35–36:

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