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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



[Dec. 



The collections are in a good state of preservation, but additional 

 cases are needed and more space for the department is desirable. 



At the annual meeting, held December 26, the following were 

 elected to serve as officers for the year 1902: 



Director, 



Vice- Director, 



Treasurer, . 



Recorder and Conservator, 



Secretary, 



Publication Committee, . 



Philip Laurent. 

 H. W. Wenzel. 

 E. T. Cresson. 

 Henry Skinner. 

 C. W' Johnson. 

 J. H. Ridings, 

 C. W. Johnson. 



Henry Skinner, 



Conservator. 



REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION. 



The Botanical Section reports that the herbarium is in a gener- 

 ally satisfactory condition. Much progress has been made in the 

 work of arrangement during the year. 



About 5,500 specimens have been added to the collections, 

 largely through purchase, the most important being a portion of 

 the collections of Mr. A. A. Heller, from Virginia, North Caro- 

 lina, Texas, Arizona, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and 

 California, numbering twenty-five hundred specimens and contain- 

 ing about 250 types, cotypes and authentic specimens, with many 

 from original tyj^e localities. These will add very materially to 

 the North American series of plants. 



Other purchases have been 129 specimens of Porto Rican plants 

 from A. A. Heller, 190 specimens of Mexican plants from C. G. 

 Pringle, 776 specimens of Canary Island plants from Dr. Theo- 

 dore Bornmuller, and 250 specimens of West Australian plants 

 from Dr. Pritzei. 



Donations numbering about 2,000 specimens have been received 

 from Col. C. A. H. McCauley, William M. Canby, Benjamin H. 

 Smith, Uselma C. Smith, C. F. Saunders, Witmer Stone, E. G. 

 Vanatta and Stewardson Brown. 



The mountinsr of the general herbarium was completed in Septem- 



