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tee, in preparing them for removal and display in the new 

 cases now making. 



The Geological collections have been removed and stored 

 in trays preparatory to a similar removal by the chairman of 

 the Geological Committee. 



I am happy in being able to state that work has been be- 

 gun by a competent Microscopist, Dr. Henry Coleman, upon 

 the revision and arrangement of our valuable Microscopical 

 collection, and that there is some hope of his being able to 

 continue his efforts until the collection is put in a safe and 

 accessible condition. 



During the last year five Corresponding and thirty-one 

 Resident Members have been elected. Seventeen general 

 meetings of the Society, eight of the Section of Entomology 

 and seven of the Section of Microscopy have been held. 



The plan of notifying each member by a postal card, of 

 the general meetings, and of the papers to be read at each, 

 was adopted during the autumn, and has been attended with 

 great success, as has been shown by the greatly increased 

 interest and fuller attendance at the meetings. The latter 

 has averaged, since October 15, sixty-four ; whereas the aver- 

 age during the last year was twenty-five. The greatest num- 

 ber of persons present at any one meeting was one hundred 

 and twenty-four, the largest Society meeting ever held in 

 this hall. 



From various unavoidable causes, only one course of 

 Lowell lectures has been given during the past season, a 

 course of four in number by Dr. Thomas D wight, Jr., on liv- 

 ing animal tissues. 



The disastrous effects of the great fire, together with other 

 difficulties, prevented the continuance of the lectures to 

 teachers, which had been so generously maintained by Mr. 

 Cummings, but it is hoped that these may be resumed at no 

 distant time. 



