146 

 May 2, 1849. 



ANNUAL IMEETING. 



Mr. T. T. Bouve in the Chair. 



Present, seventeen members. 



The usual reports of the Curators, Treasurer, and Libra- 

 rian were read, of which the following is an abstract : — 



The department of Geology has received donations during the 

 past year from Mrs. Amos Binney, Mr. D. P. Curtis, Prof. Jef- 

 fries Wyman, Dr. E,. W. Gibbes, and the Curator. The whole 

 number of specimens now belonging to the Cabinet, including 

 duplicates, is about fifteen hundred, of which about one thousand 

 are arranged in the cases. 



The department of Mineralogy has been increased during the 

 past year by the addition of five hundred and forty-two speci- 

 mens, making the whole number now belonging to the Society 

 about one thousand four hundred and fifty. Among those re- 

 ceived within the year are many rare species and varieties new 

 to the Cabinet, and nearly all are choice specimens. All the 

 minerals recently received have had labels attached to them of 

 uniform size and color, on which are written the name and local- 

 ity when known, and if the specimen is valuable, the name of 

 the donor. More than half of the old collection has been tick- 

 eted in the same manner, and considerable progress made in 

 arranging the whole on the shelves in accordance with Beu- 

 dant's system. Donations have been received during the year 

 from Messrs. J. Eliot Cabot, Edward C. Cabot, T. T. Bouve, 

 T. G. Cary, Jr., William Stimpson, Dr. W. E. Coale, Prof. J. 

 W. Webster, and the Curator; and specimens have been received 

 in exchange from Lieut. J. McNab, U. S. A. 



The department of Comparative Anatomy is in a good condi- 

 tion, and several valuable specimens have been added to its col- 

 lections within the past year. 



\n the department of Entomology^ the whole number of speci- 



