1875.] 7 [Annual Report. 



to the Society, conditionally, upon the payment of three 

 thousand dollars. After much deliberation the Council de- 

 cided to give a larger sum, out of consideration for his mem- 

 ory and the intrinsic value of the collection. They accord- 

 ingly voted five thousand dollars, which has been paid to 

 the heirs, and the collection is now being incorporated with 

 our own, and undergoing a thorough rearrangement under 

 the charge of the Chairman of the Committee on Anatomy, 

 Dr. Thomas D wight. A more detailed report will therefore 

 be necessarily postponed until this work has been finished. 



The Secretary reports as follows : — 



The evening lectures, endowed from the Lowell fund by 

 Mr. John A. Lowell, have somewhat changed their character 

 on account of the increased price which it is now necessary 

 to pay for lecturers. They have been reduced in number 

 from forty to twenty. This year the courses have been as 

 follows : — Six upon " The Chemistry of the Waters," by 

 Dr. T. S terry Hunt ; six upon " Injurious Fungi," by Dr. W. 

 G. Farlow; six upon "American Archaeology," by Mr. F. W. 

 Putnam ; and two upon the " Village Indians of New Mex- 

 ico," by Mr. Ernest Ingersoll. 



MEETINGS. 



There have been eighteen general meetings, with an aver- 

 age attendance of fifty-four persons ; five meetings of the 

 Section of Microscopy, with an average attendance of eight 

 persons ; six meetings of the Section of Entomology, with 

 an average of seven persons. On two occasions one hundred 

 and fourteen persons have been present at the general meet- 

 ings. One Honorary, four Corresponding and thirty-seven 

 Resident Members have been elected. Seventy-five com- 

 munications have been presented. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



Since the last Annual Meeting, two quarterly parts, each 

 of Volumes XVI and XVII of the Proceedings, have been 



