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parative Zoology has been returned, fully labelled ; most of 

 them were the original types of species described by Prof. 

 Dana. Donations to the number of about 79 specimens have 

 been received fi-om Drs. Kneeland and Wmslow, and Messrs. 

 Shurtleff and Wilhs. 



The remaining wall cases of the upper gallerj^ upon the 

 western end of the southern side contain the Crustacea, one 

 the dried preparations and the other the alcoholic specimens. 

 The Curator being absent in the AiTuy is unable to give any 

 report of operations during the past year, though little or 

 nothing has been done. The collection is a small but select 

 one with representatives from all parts of the world, contain- 

 ing a year ago 122 alcoholic specimens and 198 dried prep- 

 arations. The past year additions have been made of 129 

 specimens from Dr. Winslow, Capt. Atwood and Messrs. S. 

 Hubbard, S. H. Scudder, C. A. Shurtleff and J. R. WilHs. 



The Entomological collection has not heretofore been dis- 

 played by the Society, having been, up to the present time, 

 arranged in drawers and boxes, totally excluding the light. 

 Now, however, the railing cases of the upper gallery have 

 been devoted to that purpose, and the task of transposi- 

 tion of portions of the collections into the boxes necessary for 

 this method of arrangement has been commenced, and will 

 be vigorously pursued the present year; it is the intention of 

 the Curator to display all of the collection in this manner, 

 except the cabinet of the late Dr. T. W. Harris, which will be 

 kept by itself; this plan will entail a large amount of work 

 simply in the transferrence of the objects, but will undoubt- 

 edly be more satisfactory when concluded. The Insects be- 

 longing to the Society belong to four different collections, the 

 old collection, the Hentz collection, the Hams Cabinet and 

 that bequeathed during the last year by the late Mr. C. A. 

 Shurtleff. The old collection was principally rich in exotic 

 Lepidoptera (especially the diurnal) and Coleoptera, besides 

 many Orthoptera and Hymenoptera, and was gathered 

 together in the earlier period of the Society's history by the 

 exertions mainly of Drs. Gould and Harris. The catalogues 



