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REPORT OF SECTION B. 
Mrs. L. L. Goodrich, chairman of the Botanical section, 
announced that brief accounts of the work in that section had 
been given from time to time in the regular meetings, and that 
her annual report had already been printed among the papers of 
the Historical Association. 
REPORT OF SECTION C. 
Mr. Horace W. Britcher, chairman of the Zoological sec- 
tion, read a report which is summarized as follows: 
During last spring six Batrachians were taken and during 
the summer six Reptilians. 
In September a small specimen of Scutigera forceps, a my- 
riadpod as yet rather uncommon here was taken. 
A beginning in the collection of the smaller Mammalia was 
made by the trapping last December of three mole-shrews, Blar- 
ina brevicanda, and one white-footed mouse, Calomys ameri- 
cans. 
During the year one hundred and thirty bottles of spiders 
have been taken (from one to twenty specimens to a bottle) 
comprising probably seventy-five different species, of which six 
or seven are new to the county, btit not to science. These were 
collected as follows: 
May 9, shaken from the trees and bushes at the Indian 
Reservation, 16 species; August 3, from bushes and among dried 
leaves at Oak Orchard, 27 species; August 26, beneath stones at 
Onondaga Hill, to species; August 27, from bushes and beneath 
stones, Jamesville road, 15 species; October 1-10, shaken from 
cedar trees in the swamp on Jamesville road, 22 species ; October 
1-10, shaken from cedar trees along the top of rocks overlooking 
the Jamesville road, 32 species; from Cicero swamp, Syracuse, 
Jamesville, Pompey Hill, and Tully, 10 species. 
President C. W. Hargitt delivered an address entitled: 
THE PUTURE. OF THE ACADEMY, 
Special lines of work suggested in this for the year included 
the biology of the lakes, streams, canals, and swamps; some- 
