1878.] 7 {Annual Meeting. 
The beetles have been arranged in families according to 
Dr. Le Conte’s classification. The species have been identi- 
fied only in those families which have been recently revised 
and monographed. 
All the additions made during the year have been identified 
and incorporated in the main collection, and several advan- 
tageous exchanges effected. Valuable donations have been 
received from Messrs. Bryant, Smith, Thaxter, and Mrs. M6- 
ring. 
A type collection for the use of the Laboratory has been 
begun and will be finished during the coming year. 
The alcoholic collections of Reptiles and Batrachians have 
been in large part revised and named by Mr. Garman, of the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, and returned to the So- 
ciety. These have been catalogued and arranged on the 
shelves by Mr. Van Vleck, and a synoptical collection picked 
out. Considerable additions have been made to these col- 
lections by the kindness of Mr. Garman, by permission of 
Mr. Agassiz, who selected what was needed to fill gaps in 
our collection from the duplicates of the Museum of Com- 
parative Zoology. 
The Ornithological Collection has been under the charge 
of Dr. Brewer in great part, and therefore more progress has 
been made than in previous years. The collection of eggs 
has been revised and considerably increased by this gentle- 
man. Through his exertions also the New England Collec- 
tion of birds has been greatly enlarged by donations from 
various parties, and by exchanges. Highty species have been 
added to our list, among them are some of great rarity, sev- 
eral being the typical evidences of the first recorded occur- 
rence of the species in our fauna. The donors have been 
Messrs. Weeks, EH. A. and O. Bangs, C. B. Cory, F. B. Loring, 
W. B. Greene, H. D. Morse, Wm. Brewster, Arthur Smith, 
Geo. A. Boardman, and H. O. Ryder. 
