494 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [18»1. 



REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION. 



The Yiee-Director has much pleasure in reporting the continued 

 progress of the Section during the past year. 

 The offlcers-elect for 1882 are : 



Director^ . . . Dr. W. S. W. Ruschenberger. 

 Vice-Director^ . . Thomas Meehan. 

 Recorder^ . . , F. Lainson Scribner. 

 Corresponding Secretary 



and Treasurer, . Isaac C. Martindale. 

 Conservator^ . . John H. Redfield. 

 Meetings have been held every second Monday in the month, 

 except in July and August, with a slightly increased attendance 

 over the previous 3'ear. Manj' valuable verbal and written com- 

 munications have been made to the meetings ; some of the more 

 important have been afterwards published in the Proceedings of 

 the Academy. 



All the valuable work done by the Section this year has been 

 without drawing, except to a trifling extent, on the funds of the 

 Academy. 



The membership has increased slightly, and the Treasurer 

 reports a balance on hand of $34.92. 



It is but right that the Academy should bear in mind that its 

 Botanical collection is one of the finest in the United States. 

 Numbers of excellent botanists stand ready to suppl}"^ deficiencies, 

 if they can only be furnished with lists of what are needed. A 

 very little financial aid, to supply what the voluntary labor of the 

 zealous members of the Section would be overtasked to do, would 

 place it in a condition to do great honor to the Academy. Though 

 in the continued absence of this financial aid, the progress is much 

 slower than is desirable, the marked advance, as evidenced by the 

 Conservator's report, is so very gratifying that the Section has 

 adopted it as part of its report to the Academy. 

 Respectfully submitted. 



Thomas Meehan, 



Vice-Director. 



The Conservator reports a constant and encouraging growth of 

 the botanical collections of the Academy during the past year. 

 The usual detailed list of the accessions is appended. Among the 



