1878.] 
138 [Annual Meeting. 
The reports were accepted. The meeting then proceeded 
to ballot for officers for the ensuing year. Messrs. Blake and 
Henshaw were requested to collect and count the ballots 
and declared the following gentlemen elected. 
PRESIDENT, 
THOMAS T. BOUVE. 
VICE-PRESIDENTS, 
SAMUEL H. SCUDDER, JOHN CUMMINGS. 
Minerals. 
THOMAS T. Bouvgs, 
L. 8S. BURBANE, 
R. H. RICHARDS. 
Geology. 
L. S. BURBANE, 
T. STERRY Hunt, 
Wm. H. NILEs. 
Paleontology. 
THos. T. Bouvhk, 
N.S. SHALER, 
Botany. 
JOHN CUMMINGS, 
CUSTODIAN, 
ALPHEUS HYATT. 
HONORARY SECRETARY, 
Ss. L. ABBOT, M.D. 
SECRETARY, 
EDWARD BURGESS. 
TREASURER, 
CHARLES W. SCUDDER. 
LIBRARIAN, 
EDWARD BURGESS. 
COMMITTEES ON DEPARTMENTS. 
Radiates, Crustaceans and Worms. 
H. A. HAGEN, M.D., 
ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, 
L. F DE POURTALES. 
Mollusks. 
EpWARD S. Morskg, 
J. HENRY BLAKE, 
Levi L. THAXTER. 
Insects. 
S. H. ScuppDER, 
EDWARD BURGESS, 
A. S. PACKARD, Jr., M.D. 
Fishes and Reptiles. 
F. W. Putnam, 
CHARLES J. SPRAGUE, THEODORE LYMAN, 
J. AMORY LOWELL. 
Microscopy. 
SAMUEL WELLS, 
R. C. GREENLEAF, 
S. W. GARMAN. 
Birds. 
THomMaASs M. BREWER, M.D., 
SAMUEL CaABoT, M.D., 
B. Joy JEFFRIES, M.D. J. A. ALLEN, 
Comparative Anatomy. Mammals. 
THomas Dwieut, M.D., J. A. ALLEN, 
J.C. WuirTs, M.D. J. B. S. Jackson, M.D. 
