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tion of a few families of minute mollusca, which were not 
named by Dr. Carpenter before his death. 
Mr. Henshaw reports that the Harris collection of Hemip- 
tera heteroptera has been arranged and labelled according to 
Mr. Uhler’s report.1. The assortment and arrangement of the 
alcoholic material is about half completed, and some pro- 
gress has been accomplished in bringing together a collection 
of all the types described by authors in the Proceedings of 
this Society. Large numbers of specimens were collected by 
Mr. Henshaw during the summer, but only a small portion 
has been worked over. Considerable time has been ex- 
pended on the New England collection, which now contains 
3375 species, and 8003 specimens. 
Important donations have been received, one from Mr. F. 
C. Bowditch of useful insects of all orders ; another from Dr. 
C. 8. Minot of his entire collection of insects, which con- 
tains some very desirable additions to our general and New 
England collections ; a part of a collection put up by the late 
Mr. Gurdon Saltonstall, a student of unusual promise, whose 
death was bitterly regretted by many prominent members of 
this Society, has been presented by his family ; and a number 
of noctuids, of which we stood much in need, have been re- 
ceived from Mr. Roland Thaxter. 
Mr. Henshaw has been constantly employed as assistant in 
the Teachers’ School of Science, and has had but little time 
to spare for work upon these collections, but this has been 
gratuitously given to the Society. 
The Fishes remain as heretofore, though it is very desirable 
that, in the New England collection, the types of Dr. Storer’s 
fishes, destroyed in former years by neglect, by drying up of 
the alcohol, and by insects-pests, should be replaced, as has 
been done for other similar collections of types among the 
insects and other branches. This work was begun by the 
Custodian in the summer of 1871, when a special effort was 
being made under the generous patronage of Mr. C. J. Sprague 
1 Proc. of this Society 1878, XIX, 365. 
