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volumes at present in the Library is two thousand five hundred 

 and sixty-nine, including fifty-nine copies of the Society's Journal 

 and twenty-eight of the Proceedings ; unbound volumes, one 

 thousand two hundred and eighty, including eighty Legislative 

 Reports on the Natural History of the State ; and about five 

 hundred pamphlets or parts of volumes. Number of volumes in 

 circulation during the past year five hundred and six. 



The Comnaittee chosen to nonainate officers reported the 

 names of the officers of the last year with a single change, 

 the substitution of the name of Mr. Horatio R. Storer as 

 Curator of Herpetology in the place of Prof Jeffries Wy- 

 man, who declined a reelection. The candidates nomi- 

 iiated were then voted for and elected, as follows : — 



President, 

 John C. Warren, M. D. 



Vice-Presidents, 

 Charles T. Jackson, M. D. and D. Humphreys Storer, M. D. 



Corresponding Secretary, 

 J. Eliot Cabot. 



Treasurer, 

 Nathaniel B. Shurllefl^, M. D. 



Librarian, 

 Charles K. Dillaway. 



Cabinet Keeper, 

 Charles C. Sheafe. 



Curators. 



J. E. Teschemacher, Of Botany^ 



Samuel Cabot, Jr., M. D. Ornithology^ 



Thomas T. Bouve, Geology. 



Francis Alger, Mineralogy, 



William O. Ayres, Ichthyology. 



Waldo I. Burnettj M. D. Entomology, 



