584 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1896. 



hoped that the Redfield Herbarium Memorial Fund may secure the 

 active interest of the Academy. 



The officers for the ensuing year are : — 



Director, Thomas Meehan. 



Vice-Director, Charles E. Smith. 



Conservator and Treasurer, . . . Stewardson Brown. 



Recorder, ...... Chas. Schiiffer, M. D. 



Corresponding Secretary, . . .Jos. Crawford. 



Thomas Meehan, 



• Director. 



In presenting this report for the year your Conservator is glad to be 

 able to announce that the work of permanently mounting the general 

 herbarium has been carried on steadily, and is completed nearly to 

 the end of the Compositse, which should be a matter of congratula- 

 tion to all those interested in this very important work. 



Such an advance has been made possible through the untiring 

 efforts of the Director of the Section, Mr. Thomas Meehan, who has 

 devoted a large amount of his time to the work during the past 

 year. 



In this connection the Conservator wishes to acknowledge the 

 services of the Assistant in the herbarium, Mrs. E. F. Hochgesang, 

 who has rendered most valuable aid in mounting and redistributing 

 the plants, fully ten thousand sheets having been handled during 

 the year. 



In additions this year has not been behind former ones, as 2,450 

 species and varieties have been added to the herbarium, of which 

 803 are lower Cryptogams and 1,647 Phanerogams and Ferns. They 

 are distributed as follows : North America, 1,500 ; Tropical x\merica, 

 299 ; Asia, 241 ; Australia and Polynesia, 410 — adding about 600 

 species new to the collection. 



Among these may be specially mentioned the following: The 

 unique collection of Myxomycetes, forming tlie herbarium of the 

 late Dr. George A. Rex, comprising some 400 species, and presented 

 to the Academy by his sister ; 500 species of the North American 

 Grasses from the United States Department of Agriculture, through 

 Prof. F. Lamson Scribner ; 150 species of Alaskan and Siberian 

 Plants from Dr. Benj. Sharp; 90 species of Jamaica Ferns from U. 

 C. Smith ; Centuries 34 and 35 of North American Fungi from Dr. 

 J. B. Ellis ; 172 species and varieties of Sphagna Boreali-Americana 

 Exsiccata from Mr, George F. Eaton ; 375 species of Hawaiian 



