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26 ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. (Jansinz 
The ReEporT OF THE TREASURER, E. OCUMPAUGH, JR., showed a 
surplus of ninety-six dollars in the treasury, and no outstanding 
indebtedness. 
REPORT OF BOTANICAL SECTION 
Read by Mrs. J. H. McGuire, the Recorder of the Section : 
The Botanical Section of the Academy of Science was organized 
April 13, 1881, at the house of Mr. Wm. Streeter, No. 14 Scio street, at 
a meeting called for that purpose, and the following officers were 
elected’: Mr. Geo: T) Fish; President; Mrs: IT: DD Spencemi ie. 
President ; Mrs. Mary E. Streeter, Secretary. 
The aim of the Section was the systematic study of botany, and the 
collection and identification of the plants indigenous to Rochester and 
its vicinity, with the design of publishing a complete list of the flora of 
Monroe county. Suitable cabinets for the preservation of specimens 
were procured and a committee consisting of Messrs. C. M. Booth, H. 
C. Maine and C. W. Seelye was appointed to decide what specimens 
should be placed in the herbarium and to pronounce upon the correct- 
ness of nomenclature, Gray’s botany being adopted as the standard. 
Additions to the herbarium have been made from time to time, until it 
now numbers over one thousand specimens. The largest contributions 
were made by Mr. E. L. Hankinson, of Wayne, and are especially valua- 
, ble in having been mounted by him, ready for the herbarium. No dif- 
ficulty is anticipated in completing the collection of the flora of Monroe 
county, as a botanist stands ready to supply whatever specimens may 
be lacking. A fine collection of Colorado plants gathered and prepared 
by Miss Mary E. Macauley, was presented by her to the Section, mfiak- 
ing a very valuable and interesting addition. Plants have also been 
received from California, Australia, the Feejee Islands, and New Zealand. 
These have been for the most part unmounted, and the work of mount- 
ing has been done by the Section. Those from Australia were sent to 
effect an exchange of American plants. The Section is now engaged 
in collecting specimens for this purpose, which, when the requisite 
number is obtained, will be forwarded to Australia. 
Since its organization, nearly nine years ago, the Section has 
met regularly, with varying attendance as to numbers, but during that 
period there has been no suspension of meetings. 
Papers on the more prominent orders of plants have been read by 
different members, before the Section, which has also received instruc- 
tion from other botanists, among whom were Mr. C. W. Seelye, Prof. 
John G. Allen, and Prof. Lennon, of Brockport. Two fine pictures, a 
portrait of Prof. Asa Gray, and a group of Ophioglossez, representing 
