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trust that the Council chosen to-day will follow up the intention 

 of their predecessors, and at once drop the names of drones 

 from the roll of membership. It would, I think, be advisable 

 that a certificate of membership should be prepared and en- 

 graved for the Academy, to be presented to each member on his 

 reception, and, that hereafter, the names of those who are dis- 

 carded from our list in consequence of the non-payment of dues 

 should be advertised in our proceedings at the end of the year; 

 so that no one may be allowed to sail under false colors, and 

 reap the benefits of the labors of those who are active and hon- 

 orable members of the Society. 



The Eeport of your Treasurer, which will be given to you in 

 detail, shows a balance in hand of $1,593— and this, after paying for 

 the printing of our publication of 1874, and the heavy expenses of 

 altering this hall and supplying cases for our books and specimens. 

 On the whole, therefore, our condition substantially is a satisfac- 

 tory one; but I am able to speak in much higher terms of the 

 scientific progress of the Academy, and the amount of work 

 which has been accomplished. Our able director, Dr. Kellogg, 

 has been absent for a part of the year, having been selected by 

 the Government to make a collection of the woods of California 

 for exhibition at the coming Centennial, which work he has most 

 successfully performed. During his absence his place has been 

 ably filled by Mr. W. G W. Harford, who merits our warmest 

 thanks for the interest he has always displayed in the Academy, 

 and for the amount of industry he has brought to bear upon the 

 duties of his position. We may congratulate ourselves upon his 

 election for this year -to the post of Director of the Museum. 



Through the untiring energy of Mr. W. N. Lockington, nearly 

 the whole of our Fishes, Crustacea, and Radiata, have been clean- 

 ed, identified and classified— a task which, apart from the scientific 

 knowledge necessary for its performance, was one of very con- 

 siderable labor, and a great tax on our fellow-member's time. 

 Our collection of minerals, which now assumes considerable pro- 

 portions, has been arranged and labeled by Mr. CD. Gibbes, 

 who has, during the past year, passed nearly the whole of his 

 leisure time within the walls of this building. Our osteological 

 collection, and especially our valuable series of crania, which 

 for want of other room, are stored for the present in the base- 

 ment, have been carefully cleaned, preserved and labeled, by 



