514 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1898. 



Throughout the year the Conservator has been efficiently assisted 

 by Mr. E. G. Vanatta. 



The accessions of the year are enumerated in the list of additions 

 to the Museum. 



The following officers were elected at the annual meeting in Dec- 

 ember : — 



Director, ...... Benjamin Sharp, M. D. 



Vice- Director, 

 Recorder and Librarian, 

 Corresponding Secretary, 

 Treasurer, 



John Ford. 

 Edw. J. Nolan, M. D. 

 Chas. W. Johnson. 

 S. Raymond Roberts. 

 Henry A. Pilsby, 



Conservator. 



REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 



This has been a very busy year in the history of the Entomolog- 

 ical Section. The collections have been well cared for with the 

 assistance of Mr. W. J. Gerhard and Mr. Alfred Satterthwaite, 

 and by individual members interested in special branches of entomo- 

 logy. The rearrangement of the American Coleoptera is nearly 

 completed and valuable work has been done on the exotic species by 

 Dr. H. G. Griffith. The unarranged material in the Horn Collec- 

 tion has been placed in safe receptacles preparatory to proper in- 

 corporation in the main collection. Special groups in this collection 

 have been loaned to specialists for study and revision. Many 

 families in the Diptera have been rearranged by Mr. C. W. John- 

 son, in new book boxes purchased for the purpose. Two large 

 boxes of Hemiptera have been purchased, representing a large 

 number of specimens, quite a number of them being new to the 

 collection. The Membracidse have been arranged by Mr. Gerhard 

 with the aid of Dr. F. W. Goding, an authority on this subject. 

 The Neuroptera, other than the Odonata, and the Orthoptera have 

 been properly placed in new receptacles by the Conservator. 



Prof. James S. Hine has studied and properly identified our 

 material in the genus Bittacus, of which we now have a representa- 

 tive collection. Dr. Calvert has had the care of the Odonata; our 

 collection in this branch is among the very finest in the world. 

 In the Lepidoptera we are indebted to Prof. C. H. Fernald, of Am- 

 herst, Mass. who has studied and revised the Pterophoridse, a very 



