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Mr. Leopold Babo presented several botanical specimens, 

 for which also the thanks of the Society were voted. 



The Nominating Committee presented a list of oflScers for 

 he ensuing year, and the following gentlemen were elected; 



PRESIDENT, 



JEFFRIES WYMAN, M.D. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS, 



C. T. JACKSON, M.D. A. A. GOULD, M.D. 



CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, 



SAMUEL L. ABBOT, M.D. 



RECORDING SECRETARY, 



SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. 



LIBRARIAN, 



SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. 



CUSTODIAN, 



SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. 



CURATORS, 



THOMAS T. BOUV^, Of Geology and Paleontology. 



CHARLES J. SPRAGUE, Botany. 



THOMAS M. BREWER, M.D., Oology. 



HENRY BRYANT, M.D., Ornithology. 



F. W. PUTNA3I, Ichthyology. 



JAMES C. WHITE, M.D., Mammalogy and Comparative 



Anatomy. 



SAMUEL H. SCUDDER, Entomology. 



B. JOY JEFFRIES, M.D., Microscopy. 



FRANCIS H. BROWN, M.D., Herpetology 



CHARLES PICKERING, M.D., Ethnology. 



WILLIAM T. BRIGHAM, Mineralogy. 



ALPHEUS HYATT, Conchology. 



A. S. PACKARD, JR., Crustacea. 



A. E. VERRILL, Radiata. 



The Corresponding Secretary read a list of letters received 

 from foreign Societies during the month of April. 



From the K. Leopoldiniscli-Carolinisch Deutsche Academie, Dres- 

 den, September 7th, 1863 ; Naturhistorischer Verein in Augsburg, 

 December 1st, 1863 ; Societe des Sciences Naturelles, Neuchatel, De- 

 cember 11th, 1863; Royal Physio-Economical Society, Koenigsberg, 

 Prussia, December 15th, 1863; K. Universitats Bibliothek, Gottingen, 

 January 16th, 1864; K. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Gottingen, 

 February, 1864; Corporation of Harvard College, Cambridge, April 

 16th, 1864; Lyceum of Natural History, New York, April 18th, 1864, 



