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good condition and are arranged according to the system of ; 



Cuvier. 



The Library has been increased during the past year by the 

 addition of 54 volumes and 93 pamphlets. Whole number of j 



volumes now belonging to the Library, 1320 ; pamphlets, 213. I 



The Committee appointed to nominate officers for the ■ 



ensuing year reported the following list : — 



President, . 



John C. Warren. \ 



Vice-Presidents, 

 D. Humphreys Storer. Charles T. Jackson. 



Corresponding Secretary, 

 Augustus A. Gould. 



Treasurer, i 



Patrick T. Jackson. i 



Librarian, 

 Charles K. Dillaway. 



Cabinet Keeper, 

 Charles C. Sheafe. 



Recording Secretary, 

 Samuel L. Abbot. 



* Curators, 



J. E. Teschemacher, Of Botany. 



Jeffries Wyman, Herpetology. 



Samuel Cabot, Jr. Ornithology. 



T. T. Bouve, Geology. 



Francis Alger, Mineralogy, 



William O. Ayres, Ichthyology. 



Waldo I. Burnett, Entomology. 



William Reed, Conchology. 



Samuel Kneeland, Jr. Comparative Anatomy. 



The Treasurer presented a transcript of his account for 

 the year, 



