PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



TAKEN FROM THE SOCIETY'S RECORDS. 



Annual Meeting, May 5, 1875. 



Vice-President Mr. S. H. Scudcler in the chair. Thirty- 

 two persons present. 



Prof. Alpheus Hyatt, Custodian, presented the following 

 report : — 



The changes in the furniture of the building, described in 

 the last Annual Report, have been completed. More than 

 half of the cases are now secured against the entrance of 

 dust and insects, and the most valuable preparations can be 

 safely trusted to their protection. If any member of the 

 Society will take the trouble to walk through our rooms, 

 he will easily satisfy himself of the necessity of these 

 changes. The condition of the collections which still re- 

 main in the old cases, whose loose doors cannot be secured 

 either against dust or insects, show this veiy plainly. 

 The tablets in the Paleontological and Conchological col- 

 lections, though but recently completed, are more or less 

 disfigured by dust, and where more perishable specimens 

 exist, as among birds and mammals, the amount of damage 

 done will, in a few years, be irretrievable. The alterations 

 were completed last July, and the work of removing the 

 collections was carried on as fast as each room or gallery was 

 made ready for occupation. 



PROCEEDINGS B. S. H. H. — VOL. XVIII. 1 AUGUST, 1875. 



