Annual Meeting.] 4 [May 1, 
The European Collection is almost wholly made up of the 
Eser Collection, which is reported upon by Miss Carter as 
follows :— 
Genera. Species. Specimens. 
Cambrian : E : 15 20 38 
Silumane. ey oe ae a ee aS Fe 27 
Devonian. : : 17 20 34 
Sub-Carboniferous . ; 12 19 16 
Carboniferous . : : 21 46 120 
Triassic . ‘ : Baie (5) 277 747 
Jurassic . e : Pa 5 | 749 2164 
Cretaceous : , Sain t,o | 260 608 
Tertiary and recent . Bap yb, 1258 5091 
1306 2663 8809 
The valuable parts of this collection and its peculiar suit- 
ability for our purposes has been described fully in previous 
reports. ? 
A very slight amount of work will finish the catalogue of 
the remaining collections, and a final report will be made 
next year upon the whole department. 
The Botanical Department, under the charge of Mr. John 
Cummings, has been steadily progressing as in former years. 
The classification of Bentham and Hooker’s “ Genera Plant- 
arum ” has been adopted, and the revision of the Herbarium 
cannot be made ahead of the issue of the numbers of this 
book, which is still in course of publication. Three-fifths of 
all the flowering plants have been revised, and the work has 
been suspended until another part of the Genera Plantarum 
makes its appearance. Considerable progress has been made 
by Miss Carter in sorting over, condensing, and properly ar- 
ranging the duplicates and filling out blanks in the general 
collection. Miss Carter has also sorted, mounted, and tick- 
eted a large and valuable collection of Lichens under the 
direction of Mr. C. J. Sprague, who reports as follows: — 
