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The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : 



Director Dr. J. Che.ston Morris. 



Vice-Diredor T. Chalkley Palmer. 



Recorder Charles S. Boyer. 



Corresponding Secretary Silas L. Schumo. 



Treasurer Dr. Thomas S. Stewart. 



Curator F. J. Keeley. 



Charles S. Boyer, 



Recorder. 



Entomological Section. — The regular monthly meetings have 

 been held during the year and communications of interest have 

 been made. The proceedings have been published in Entomo- 

 logical News and are therefore permanently recorded. 



At a meeting held December 14th the following persons were 

 elected officers to serve for the coming year: 



Director Philip Laurent. 



Vice-Director Henry W. Wenzel. 



Treasurer Ezra T. Cresson. 



Conservator Henry Skinner. 



Secretary J. A. G. Rehn. 



Recorder Henry Skinner. 



Publication Committee E. T. Cresson andE. T. Cresson, Jr. 



Henry Skinner, 



Recorder. 



Botanical Section. — Satisfactory progress has been made in the 

 mounting and distribution of specimens in the herbarium, notwith- 

 standing the absence of the Conservator, through illness, during the 

 first half of the year. Additions, which are enumerated in detail in 

 the report of the Curators, have agregated approximately 50,000 

 specimens, of which 2,700 were purchased. At the annual meeting 

 of the Section, held on November 25, the following officers were 

 elected to serve for the ensuing year : 



Director Benjamin H. Smith. 



. Vice-Director Joseph Crawford. 



Recorder John W. Eckfeldt, M.D. 



Treasurer and Conservator Stewardson Brown. 



Respectfull}^ submitted, 



Stewardson Brown, 



Conservator. 



