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volume five completed, with three hundred and forty pages and ten 

 plates. One new memher has been elected and one associate. At a 

 meeting held Dec. 10, 1894, the following were elected to serve as 

 officers for the coming year: — 



Director, 



Vice-Director, 



Recorder, 



Treasurer, 



Conservator, 



Pu hi. Committee , 



Geo. H. Horn, M.D. 

 Chas. S. Welles. 

 Henry Skinner, M.D. 

 Ezra T. Cresson. 

 Henry Skinner, M.D. 

 j James H. Ridings, 

 ( Chas. W. Johnson. 

 Henry Skinner, 



Recorder. 



REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION. 



The Botanical Section respectfully reports that it is in a prosper- 

 ous condition, has held regular monthly meetings at which valuable 

 communications have been presented and discussed, and that it is 

 wholly free from debt. 



The herbarium, owing to the assiduous labors of the Conservator, 

 Mr. John H. Redfield, is in a highly prosperous condition, contain- 

 ing about 33,000 species of flowering plants and ferns, of which 452 

 new to the herbarium were added last year. 



The herbarium is hampered by want of room, all of which is set 

 forth in detail in the Conservator's annual statement, which is ap- 

 pended as part of this report. 



The officers elected for the ensuing year are : — 



Director, ..... Thomas Meehan. 



Vice- Director, 



Recorder, 



Cor. Sec'y and Treasurer, 



Conservator, 



Charles E. Smith. 

 Charles Schiiffer M.D. 

 Stewardson Brown 

 J. H. Redfield. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



Thomas Meehan, 



Vice- Director. 



The Conservator of the Botanical Section reports as follows: — 

 This is the nineteenth year since a change of the By-Laws of the 



