420 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1880. 



aid received from Mr. Chas. F. Parker in the work of poisoning 



and arranging the collections received during the year and for 



other material assistance. 



John H. Redpield, 



Conservator. 

 December \Wi, 1880. 



The officers elected for the forthcomino- year are : 



Director. — Dr. W. S. AV. Ruschenberger. 



Vice-Director. — Thomas Meehan. 



Recorder. — F. L. Scribner. 



Gor. Secretary. — Isaac C. Martindale. 



Conservator, — John H. Redfleld. 



Treasurer. — J. 0. Schimmel. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Thomas Meehan, 



Vice-Director, 



Donations to Herbarium and Museum. — Mrs. Sarah S. Pickering, 

 of Cambridge, Mass. : 1200 species plants, collected by the late 

 Dr. Chas. Pickering, in the years 1844 and 1845, in Malta, Egypt, 

 Arabia, Zanzibar and India, also lot of seed-vessels, etc. Chas. 

 F.Parker: Lechea Novae Gesarise Austin, Bergen Co., N. Y., 

 (author's type) ; Fracjaria Gillmani, Clinton, Detroit, Mich, 

 (author's type) ; Guizotia oleifera., D. C, African species, from 

 Ballast, Camden, N, J. ; Lycopus sessilifolius, Gr., Batsto, N. J. ; 

 Lycopus Europseus, Ballast, Camden, N. J. Wm, M. Canb}- : 

 Phlox Stellaria^ Gr., Nashville, Tenn. ; 5 species plants from Cali- 

 fornia, new to the collection ; 111 species of plants from Europe, 

 Syria, S. Africa, etc., many of them new to the collection. Dr. 

 Asa Gray: 161 species plants from California. Arizona, Oregon, 

 Washington Terr., Turkistan, and Micronesian Islands, mostly 

 new to the collection. Prof C, J. Sargent : Aster Herveyi, Gr., 

 Tiverton, R. I. ; Photographs of Conifene, from Oregon. Geo. E. 

 Davenport, Boston : Gheilanthes viscida, Davenp., California. 

 Isaac C. Martindale : Third and fourth centuries of Ellis' North 

 American Fungi; Gorethrogyne filaginifolia, Nutt, San Diego Co., 

 Cal. ; specimens of Oas/a ??pa re.sca, L., var. ^»;eKcana, with ab- 

 normal fertile spikes, from Pitman's Grove, N. J. ; Bark of Pinus 

 Tnitis.! Mx. ; Brickellia VincenUana.^ Greene, new species. New 

 Mexico ; Gorrigiola litteralis^ L., Ballast, near Philadelphia. Dr. 

 C. C. Parry, l)aven])ort, la. : Tithonia tubseformiSj Cass., cidt. at 

 Davenport, from Mexican seed ; Mexican mats and rope made 

 from fibre of ^f/aue heteracantha ; Fibre of Agave Americana. 

 A. L. Siler, Utah : Pentstemon Sileri^ Gr., nov. sp., Beaver Dam 

 Mts., Utah. Mrs, M. J. Myers, Syracuse, N. Y. : Epipactis Hel- 



