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Mr. Edward Pickering, on behalf of the Auditing Commit- 

 tee, stated that they had examined the accounts of the 

 Treasurer and found them correctly cast and properly 

 vouched, and had signed statements to that effect upon 

 the books. 



The Secretary read a letter addressed to the President 

 from the Curator of Botany, Mr. Sprague, resigning that office, 

 giving an account of the vast progress in his department dur- 

 ing the twelve years that he had charge of it, and the amount 

 of work expended upon it, and suggesting the name of Mr. 

 Horace Mann as his successor. 



The following gentlemen were then declared elected Offi- 

 cers of the Society for the year 1865-6 : 



PRESIDE>-T, 



JEFFRIES WY^IAX, M.D. 



VICE-PRESIDENT. 



CHAKLES T. JACKSON, M.D., AUGUSTUS A. GOULD, M.D. 



CORRESPO^'DI^fG SECRETARY, 



SAMUEL L. ABBOT, MJ). 



RECORDING SECRETARY, 



SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. 



TREASURER, 



EDWARD riCKERING. 



LIBRARIAN, 



SAMUEL H. SCUDDEE. 



CUSTODIAN, 



CURATORS, 



THOMAS T. BOUVfi, Of Geology and Paleontology. 



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



HENRY BRYANT, MJD., Ornithology. 



F. W. rUTNAM, Ichthyology. 



JAMES C. WHITE, M.D., SIammalogy and Com. Anatomy. 



SA3IUEL H. SCUDDER, Entomology. 



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



FRANCIS H. BROWN, M.D., Herpetology. 



CHARLES PICKERING, M.D.. Ethnology. 



ALPHEUS HYATT, Conchology. 



A. S. PACKARD, JR., Crustacea. 



A. E. VERRILL, Radiata. 



THOMAS T. B0UV1&, Mineralogy. 



HORACE MANN, Botany. 



