548 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1897. 



before and they are being well protected against museum pests. The 

 Section has been fortunate in having aid from a number of its 

 members interested in special branches of entomology. Dr. H. G. 

 Griffith has done excellent work in the rearrangement of the exotic 

 Coleoptera and Mr. Gerhard has worked industriously on the Mar- 

 tindale Lepidoptera. A number of valuable collections have been 

 presented and many small lots of insects. These are enumerated in 

 the list of additions to the museum. It is hoped that the display 

 collection in the museum may be rapidly increased for the benefit 

 of the visiting public. So far as the collections for study are con- 

 cerned, little is to be desired, as in a number of the orders we 

 have the finest collections of American species in the world. 



Ten numbers of the Entomological News have been published 

 forming 256 pages and 11 plates. At the meeting of the Section 

 held Dec. 23rd. the following were elected to serve as officers for 

 the coming year: 



Director, Chas. S. Welles. 



Vice-Director, 



Treasurer, 



Conservator and Recorder, 



Secretary, 



Publication Committee, . 



Philip Laurent. 

 E. T. Cresson. 

 Henry Skinner. 

 Win. J. Fox. 



j J. H. Ridings. 

 1 C. W. Johnson. 

 Henry Skinner, 



Recorder. 



REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION. 



The Director of the Botanical Section respectfully reports that 

 though the work of the Section has had to be performed almost 

 wholly by the volunteer labors of its members, the general progress 

 of the year has been satisfactory. Much valuable assistance could 

 have been secured in the distribution of various collections awaiting 

 their final arrangement, if the extra rooms had been fitted with the 

 cases referred to in the Conservator's report to the Section which is 

 appended as part of this document. The cost of mounting speci- 

 mens has been defrayed by the Academy. 



Our late lamented fellow member, John H. Redfield, knowing 

 that the time must surely come when the Herbarium and its work 

 would retrograde without the services of a salaried Curator, left his 

 herbarium and library to the Section to be sold for the nucleus of a 



