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mind that its present and its future success depends upon 

 the results of the labors of the specialists in the various 

 departments of our Academy. 



In no former period of our history has there been more 

 zealous and profitable work accomplished. 



Most of the curators of the different departments have 

 performed their work in a manner which is satisfactory to 

 our society. As was anticipated, however, some of them 

 were so immersed in business incident to their several voca- 

 tions that they were unable to complete the work assigned 

 them. A number of them, however, deserve special men- 

 tion upon this occasion for zealous and untiring work in the 

 field and careful and painstaking labor in the work-room. 

 They have classified and arranged the gleanings in so thor- 

 ough a manner that they will be of great service, not only 

 to the workers of the present day, but will become of last- 

 ing benefit to science in the future. 



The Curator of Botany, Mrs. T. S. Brandegee, is de- 

 serving of the thanks of the well-wishers of this Associa- 

 tion for the tireless energy with which she has pursued the 

 work which was assigned her. During the past year she 

 has visited distant and unfrequented localities in the inter- 

 est of her department, and very large and valuable addi- 

 tions to the Herbarium have been made as the result of her 

 energetic work, and our publications bear evidence of care- 

 ful and painstaking study in her department. 



To Mr. T. S. Brandegee the Society is also indebted for 

 valuable donations of plants collected on the peninsula of 

 Lower California, and our publication is enriched by a 

 monograph by him describing the more important plants 

 which he secured. Undertaking at his own expense the 

 exploration of that interesting field, he traversed nearly 

 the entire length of the peninsula and brought to us as a 

 result nearly 1,000 species of the fiora of that region. 



Our Curator in Ornithology, Walter E. Bryant, deserves 

 the thanks of the Society for constant and unremitting 



