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m.;" "Commercial and Other Sponges," 

 No. ly.j "A First Lesson in Natural His- 

 tory;" No. v., "Common Hydroids, Cor- 

 als, and Echinoderms ; " "Trees of Wor- 

 cester," by Arabella H. Tucker; and 

 Chapman's "Handbook of the Birds of 

 Eastern North America." 



The Worcester County collection of 

 birds has been materially improved by tlie 

 addition of twenty-five mounted speci- 

 mens. The corals and sponges have been 

 brought down from the upper hall and 

 re-arranged in cases in the lower hall. 

 Three hundred copies of the annual re- 

 ports for 1898-99 have been printed and 

 distributed among the members and others 

 interested in the Society. By request of 



the American Naturalist, a paper descrip- 

 tive of the Worcester Natural History So- 

 ciety, written by Mr. Braman, appeared 

 in the September number. During the win- 

 ter and spring four articles have been 

 writter. by Mr. Braman for the Sunday 

 Spy. These are on the geology, land shells, 

 and trees of Worcester County, nature 

 study La the public schools, March birds, 

 and the aquatic plants of Lake Quin- 

 sigamond as shown by Prof. Stone's "Flora 

 of Lake Quinsigamond." 



Respectfully submitted, 



BESSIE LONG DEWHURST, 

 Custodian. 



