588 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [DeC, 



are the following: J. Cheston Morris, T. Chalkley Palmer, Frank J, 

 Keeley, Thomas S. Stewart, Hugo Bilgram, and Charles S. Boyer. 



At the annual election of officers, the following were chosen for 

 the year 1916: 



Director J. Cheston Morris, 



Vice-Director T. Chalkley Palmer. 



Recorder Charles S. Boyer. 



Treasurer Thomas S. Stewart, 



Conservator Frank J. Keeley. 



Corresponding Secretary Silas L. Schumo. 



Charles S. Boyer, Recorder. 



Entomological Section. — The meetings of the Section have 

 been well attended during the year and the communications made 

 have been published. A large amount of valuable material has 

 been added to the collection. Two members and a contributor 

 have been elected. At a meeting held December 13 the following 

 officers were elected to serve for the ensuing year: 



Director Philip Laurent. 



Vice-Director R. C. Williams. 



Treasurer Ezra T. Cresson. 



Secretary J. A. G. Rehn. 



Recorder E. T. Cresson, Jr. 



Publication Committee E. T. Cresson, 



Philip P. Calvert, 

 E. T. Cresson, Jr. 



Henry Skinner, Recorder. 



Botanical Section.— The Conservator spent most of February 

 and March in Porto Rico in company with Dr. and Mrs. N. L. 

 Britton, of the New York Botanical Garden, and Prof. John F. 

 Cowell, of the Buffalo Botanical Garden. Sets of more than 2,500 

 herbarium numbers were collected, in addition to many living plants 

 for the gardens. The Academy has received its share of the collec- 

 tions, which is being prepared for the general series. Other important 

 additions are a number of New England plants collected by Mr. 

 Bayard Long and Prof. M. L. Fernald. 



More than 3,000 sheets of plants, received from various members 

 of the Philadelphia Botanical Club, have been mounted for the 

 local herbarium by Mr. S. S. Van Pelt. 



