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Report of the President. 



Annual Members. 



Abegg, Henry 

 Aldrich, Mrs. H. D. 

 Baldwin, O. D. 

 Banyer, Goldsborough 

 Barton, Frederick O. 

 Blodgett, Mrs. Wm. T. 

 Borg, Simon 

 Callaway, S. R. 

 Carter, Walter S. 

 Chittenden, J. 

 Clark, Charles F. 

 Colgate, Abner W. 

 Crawford, W. H. 

 Davenport, Ira 

 Dodge, George E. 

 Drake, John J. 

 Dormitzer, Mrs. Henry 

 Grace, William R. 

 Hendricks, Henry H. 



Howlett, A. Ames 

 Jaeger, Francis M. 

 Johnson, S. Fisher 

 Kerner, Charles H. 

 Lathers, Mrs. Richard 

 Lockman, Jacob K. 

 Navarro, Juan N. 

 Nott, Frederick J. 

 O'Connor, Thomas D. 

 Platt, Isaac S. 

 Putney, W. B. 

 Sands, Andrew H. 

 Storm, George 

 Toothe, William 

 Townsend, R. H. L. 

 Trowbridge, E. D. 

 Wallach, Antony 

 Willetts, Joseph C 

 Wiener, Dr. Joseph 



Department of Geology and Palaeontology. — The work 

 of cataloguing and labeling has progressed steadily throughout 

 the year, over five thousand catalogue entries having been 

 made and more than eleven hundred new labels prepared. 

 The acquisitions include an important collection of Silurian 

 fossils from Ohio, acquired by purchase, and several minor 

 additions, obtained partly by exchange and partly by purchase. 

 Additions have also been made to the collection of rock speci- 

 mens, designed to illustrate the geology of New York Island. 

 Two new cases placed in the alcoves at the south end of the 

 Geological Hall have given opportunity for a better display 

 and more convenient arrangement of the material in that part 

 of the hall. 



The Curator, Professor Whitfield, has prepared and pub- 

 lished several papers in the Museum Bulletin, illustrated with 

 four plates, relating to a new genus and species of Lower 



