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The Curator has also labelled for the Society a collection 

 of East Indian corals, chosen from the duplicates of the Es- 

 sex Institute, and another of Echinoderms and corals from 

 the west coast of America, received in exchange from the 

 Museum of Yale College ; these collections have not yet been 

 forwarded. Donations have also been presented by Messrs. 



F. W. Andrews and S. H. Scudder, and Cai^ts. K E. Atwood 

 and Edmund Smith. 



The Microscopical collection is in good condition and has 

 received additions at nearly every meeting of. the Section. 

 These meetings have been growing in interest, and the at- 

 tendance has considerably inci-eased. The donations, con- 

 sisting principally of mounted Diatomacese, with some rough 

 material, were presented by Dr. C. F. Crehore and Messrs. C 



G. Bush and Wm. Munroe. 



Another case has been provided to accommodate the ex- 

 tensive herbarium in the Society's possession. The plants 

 are in good order, and during the early portion of the year, 

 much labor was ex23ended in gluing the specimens upon stiff 

 paper ; this was a continuation of the work of the previous 

 year. There have been but few accessions to the collection ; 

 most of the specimens were such that they required to be 

 exhibited on shelves. 



A small but interesting collection of Gnaphalium leonto- 

 podium from the Tyrol and the Erzgebirge of Saxony, illus- 

 trating the variations caused in the same individual by difier- 

 ences of warmth, exposure and height, was presented by Mr. 

 S. H. Scudder. Some additions have been received by 

 exchange ; for the rest the Society is indebted to Drs. H. 

 Bryant, E.P. Colby, B. E. Cotting, A. A. Gould, S. Kneeland, 

 Ferd. Miiller, and C. Pickering, Prof Gunning, and Messrs. 

 W. T. Brigham, Francis Brooks, C. L. Brown, H. W. Ilaynes, 

 H. Mann, C. A. Olmsted, H. H. Ronne, and S. II. Scudder. 



There has been little change in the Pala3ontological depai-i- 

 ment ; the donations have been very acceptable, but neither 

 numerous nor rare. The Tertiary fossils collected by Dr. 



