450 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1879. 



At the annual meeting in December, the following officers were 

 elected to serve during 1880: 



Director ..... John L. Leconte, M.D. 



Vice-Director .... Geo. H. Horn, M.D. 



Recorder Jas. H Ridings. 



Treasurer E. T. Cresson. 



Conservator .... Geo. B. Cresson. 



Publication Committee . . Geo. H. Horn, M.D., 



Samuel Lewis, M.D. 



All of which is respectfully submitted, 



Geo. H. Horn, M.D. ; Vice-Director, 



for the Recorder. 



REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION. 



The Vice-Director of the Botanical Section has much pleasure in 

 reporting to the Academy the satisfactory progress it has made 

 during the past year. The Section now consists of thirty-five 

 members, and the meetings held every month, except August and 

 September, have been well attended. At these meetings many 

 new and valuable facts in relation to our local flora, as well as to 

 the science of Botany in general, have been contributed by many 

 of the members. Of the papers read before the meetings one by 

 Mr. Ellis, of Newfield, New Jersey, and one by Professor Asa 

 Gray, have been of such general importance as to receive the re- 

 commendation of the Section to the Academy for publication in 

 its proceedings. 



In regard to the valuable Herbarium it is pleasant to report 

 that the additions of the past and previous year together are far 

 be3-ond those of any period for many years past. 



That so many distinguished men should have aided the Academy 

 in this handsome manner shows their high appreciation of its 

 work Und usefulness. In the arrangement of the Herbarium a 

 place has been reserved for every genus, and it is gratifying to 

 note that the hiati are now mostly of genera from regions rarely 

 explored, and that even these are gradually being filled, so that 

 the floras of even the most distant parts of the world are fairly 

 represented on our shelves. 



