Annua Meeting. 248 ; [May 7, 
Adding together the aggregates of the different collections 
given above, we obtain the following totals for the whole 
department : 
Genera. Species. Specimens. 
No. America . - , 070 2093 8227 
So. America é 24 28 170 
Africa ss Romania 5 6 14 
Asia and Australia . 46 84 170 
Europe .- . - 1631 3623 13655 
2776 5834 22236 
Mr. W. O. Crosby has earefuly sorted the large collection of 
duplicate fossils, selecting out a good suite for teaching Strati- 
graphical Palaeontology, while a large proportion of the more 
common and typical of the fossils remaining have been 
divided into small sets, to be disposed of to teachers and 
and students, the residue being retained for ordinary exchange 
purposes. 
A large number of these duplicates have been tempo- 
rarily loaned to the Institute of Technology, for use in teach- 
ing in their Geological Department. _ 
Now that the arrangement and cataloguing of these col- 
lections is finished, it will probably not surprise the Society 
to learn that their condition is attributable not only to the 
liberality of Mr. John Cummings in giving valuable col- 
lections, but more than anything else, to the work done by 
the two assistants employed by him. Without this aid we 
could have done but little more than preserve in their former 
condition the departments of Palaeontology, Botany, and 
Microscopy ; certainly, we could not have arrived at our 
present satisfactory state in these collections. Though our 
progress in the Museum is so largely due to this gentleman, 
there is no way in which the Society can express its obliga- 
tions, except through this Annual Report, since by far the 
largest part of his annual donation never appears upon the 
Treasurer’s books or other printed records. 
During the past year the specimens of wood, fruit, etc., on 
exhibition in the glass cases, have been catalogued, mounted 
