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iu fact a considerable number have been promised as soon as case- 

 room is provided. 



At the meeting of the Section, held December 23d, the following 

 officers were elected for the ensuing year : — 



Director, Theodore D. Rand. 



Vice-Director, ..... Wm. W. Jefferis. 



Conservator, ..... Wm. W. Jefferis. 



Treasurer, ...... John Ford. 



Corresponding Secretary ) _,, „ . ..„ 



, „ , " Chas. Schaffer. 



ana Recorder, ) 



Respectfully submitted, 



Theo. D. Rand, 



Director. 



REPORT OF THE ORNITHOLOGICAL SECTION. 



The work of cataloguing and rearranging the Ornithological col- 

 lection has gone on steadily during the past year; and, although not 

 quite so many specimens have been worked over as in the previous 

 year, this has been more than compensated by the large increase in 

 the labelling and cataloguing. 



The Conservator has been enabled to devote a considerable amount 

 of his time to the work, as has also Mr. McCaddeu, the taxidermist, 

 while valuable assistance has been rendered by Mr. Henry W. 

 Fowler, Miss Helen M. Higgius and Mr. Wm. J. Gerhard. 



During the year 4,193 mounted specimens have been worked 

 over, the best of them being remounted and the types and duplicates 

 reduced to skins, and all the material not hitherto named has been 

 carefully identified and catalogued. In addition to this a large 

 number of temporary lists were copied into the regular catalogue, 

 which has now been brought up to date, while a considerable num- 

 ber of labels for specimens in the exhibition cases have been pre- 

 pared. This work for the year aggregates 4,125 labels written, and 

 9,979 entries in the catalogue. The groups renovated in the mounted 

 collection comprised the Cathartida?, Falconida?, Bubonidse, Strigida\ 

 Fringillidye, Ploceidse, Laniidse, Motacillidse, Alaudidre, Artamid: , 



