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"General Collection" has also been catalogued and ar- 

 ranged. 



The preparations of the leaves and stems of New England 

 trees and shrubs, described in the last Annual Report, have 

 been placed on exhibition by the donor, Mr. Edward T. Bouve. 

 They fill, together with the accompanying specimens of wood- 

 sections, one entire gallery. They are also accompanied by a 

 series of the plates from the last edition of " The Trees and 

 Shrubs of Massachusetts," presented by Mr. Geo. B. Emerson, 

 showing the natural colors of the leaves, flowers, and fruit. 

 Altogether this collection must be considered one of the most 

 attractive and instructive in the Museum, and the Society 

 owes its most earnest thanks to the donor. 



Miss Washburn has been employed during the greater part 

 of the winter in cataloguing the Bailey Microscopical Col- 

 lection. The labels, and entries on the labels, and loose 

 manuscript slips accompanying the slides, have been, for the 

 most part, entered by Miss Washburn in our running cata- 

 logue, and the incomplete descriptive Bailey Catalogue car- 

 ried out and completed. Dr. Henry Coleman has continued 

 his work upon the Burnett Collection of mounted parasites. 

 These have also, in common with our general collection of 

 microscopical material, been catalogued by Miss Washburn. 



The arrangement of the Wyman Anatomical Collection, 

 and its incorporation with our own, has been finished by 

 Dr. Thomas Dwight, and reported upon by him to the So- 

 ciety, in the Proceedings for October 20, of the present year. 

 The Chairman of the Committee further reports that many 

 sections showing the structure of bones have been prepared 

 by him and added to the collection during the year, and also 

 that the skeletons of a large sea-lion and of two fur-seals 

 have been acquired through the liberality of Capt. Charles 

 Bryant, the Superintendent in charge of the Fur-Seal Islands. 



The Palmer collection of Florida sponges has been ac- 

 quired by purchase, and now forms the beginning of our new 

 collection of Protozoa. Very valuable, though small, col- 



PROCEEDINGS B. S. N. H. — VOL. XVIII. 22 NOVEMBER, 1876. 



