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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



[1893. 



At the last meeting the following gentlemen were elected to serve 

 as officers for the coming year : — 



Director, 



Vice-Director, 



Treasurer, 



Conservator, 



Recorder, 



Publication Committee, 



George H. Horn, M. D. 

 Charles S. Welles. 

 Ezra T. Cresson. 

 Henry Skinner, M. D. 

 Henry Skinner, M. D. 

 James H. Ridings. 

 Charles W. Johnson. 



REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION. 



The Vice-Director of the Botanical Section respectfully reports 

 that the general prosperity noted in other years still continues, 

 though the work of the Conservator is seriously hampered by reason 

 of the crowded condition of the Herbarium shelves. 



Meetings have been regularly held except during the Summer 

 recess. Discussions on matters of botanical interest have been fre- 

 quent, and two original papers of value to general science on the 

 botany of the Peary Expeditions and researches relative to the 

 jelly glands of Brasenia peltata, have been accepted for publi- 

 cation in the Proceedings of the Academy. 



Donations to the Herbarium have been liberal : reaching the 

 the number of 2,599 species; 2,344 were of flowering plants and ferns, 

 of which 596 were new to our collection. 



The Section is free from debt. The officers elected for the en- 

 suing year are : 



Director, . . . . W. S. W. Ruschenberger, M. D. 



Vice- Director, . . . Thomas Meehan. 



Conservator, . . . John H. Redfield. 



Recorder, .... Charles Schafter, M. D. 



Recording Sec'y and Treasurer, Stewardson Brown. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



Thomas Meehan, 



Vice-Director. 



REPORT OF THE MINERALOGICAL AND GEOLOGICAL 



SECTION. 



Meetings of ihe Section have been held at the Academy regularly 

 during the year, except in the summer and in September and Oc- 

 tober, when most of the members are absent. 



