342 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1884. 



Director, 

 Vice-Director, 

 Recorder, 

 Treasurer, . 

 Conservator, 



. Geo. H. Horn, M.D. 

 , Rev. Henry C. McCook, D. D. 

 . James H. Ridings. 

 . E. T. Cresson. 

 . Henry Skinner, M. D. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



James H, Ridings, 



Becorder. 



REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION. 



The Vice-Director of the Botanical Section has to report to 

 the Academy that the affairs of the Section are in a generally 

 prosperous condition. 



Our Herbarium, already one of which the Academy is justly 

 proud, has been increased in new species 407 the past year, with- 

 out including the additions among the lower cryptogams. The 

 excellent progress made in other matters, under the superinten- 

 dence of the Conservator, Mr. John H. Redfield, is set forth in 

 detail in his annual report to the Section, which is submitted 

 herewith as part of the Section's report. 



Meetings have been held regularly every month, except July 

 and August, the average attendance for the whole year being 

 slightly larger than last. 



The Section is free from debt, and has a considerable balance 

 in its treasury. 



One of the events of the year was the social re-union and enter- 

 tainment, in the hall of the Academy, of the botanists in attend- 

 ance on the meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, under the auspices of the Section. The 

 expense was borne by the mem-bers of the Section, without any 

 draft on its regular funds, or on the funds of the Local Committee 

 of the Association. It is believed that the result will be useful 

 to the Academy, in making the work of the botanical department 

 better known, reacting in the interest of botany everywhere. 



At the meetings of the Section many matters of interest to 

 botanists have been presented, and some, by Professor Gray, 

 Professor Rothrock, and Messrs. Meehan and Scribner, deemed 

 of sufficient general importance to appear in the Proceedings of 

 the Academy. 



