S12 PKOCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [DeC, 



not wholly unimportaut has been accomplished toward the })romotion 

 of science. 



The following officers have been elected for the year 1904: 



Director, ...... Benjamin Smith Lyman. 



Vice-Director, George \'aux, Jr. 



Recorder and Sccrridri/, . . . Miss Mary S. Holmes. 



Treasurer, ...... ^liss Emma Walter. 



Conservator, ..... Frank J. Keeley. 



Benjamin Smith Lyman, 



Vice-Director. 



The Biological and Microscopical Section. 



Nine regular and several informal meetings have l)een held during 

 the year, showing increased interest among the members, who now 

 mmiber thirty-five. The Conservator reports that the instruments 

 of the Section are in their usual good working order and have been 

 in regular use during the year. 



The following additions have been made : 



Eighty-nine slides, principally rock and mineral secti(5ns, received 

 from the Curators of the Academy. 



Two slides of quartz with inclusions, presented b}^ ]\Ir. Hugo Bilgram. 



One Zentmayer Army Hospital Microscope and outfit, purchased. 



Two small Queen Microscopes with objectives, purchased. 



(_)ne Demonstration Microscope, purchased. 



One Acme, No. 3, Microscope stand, formerly the pro)5erty of Mr. 

 AVoolman, purchased. 



Among the verbal communications and papers the following may be 

 mentioned : New Species of Trachelomonas, by ^Ir. T. C. Palmer; Myxo- 

 mycetes and liquid inclusions in quartz, by Mr. Hugo Bilgram; stained 

 diatoms and models of microscopes and accessories, by ]\Ir. F. J. Keele}' ; 

 butter making and A'arious pathological subjects, by Dr. J. C. ]\Iorris; 

 remarks on specimens obtained in his travels, by Mr. S. L. Shumo; 

 photographs of diatoms, by Dr. T. S. Stewart; slides of diatoms, by 

 Mr. W. B. Davis, Mr. John A. Shulze and Mr. C. S. Boyer. 



The Section has lost by death Dr. Charles Shaffer, a learned and 

 valued member, and !Mr. Lewis Woolman, who by his genial activity 

 had become the jjersoual friend of every active member of the 

 Academv. 



