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will enable us to bring forward most of the departments to just 

 about the same condition, and then, as in the present instance, if 

 not supported by donations for the purchase of specimens and the 

 employment of labor, they cannot be effectively completed. 



Mr. Crosby has added to the lithological collection about 75 

 specimens of volcanic and stratified crystalline rocks, collected 

 in Europe ; also several large specimens of lava illustrating impor- 

 tant points in structural and dynamical geology. 



Botany. 



Under the direction of Mr. Cummings, Miss Carter has continued 

 the revision and relabelling of the general collection of plants, and 

 has finished the Gamopetalous orders. These now contain 41 or- 

 ders, 974 genera, and 4524 species. The bundles of dried plants 

 containing 7270 specimens laid aside by the gentleman formerly in 

 charge of this department and supposed to be only duplicates of the 

 Gamopetalae, have been reexamined, and 1116 specimens repre- 

 senting as many species and varieties, which were not in the 

 general collection, have been picked out and restored to their 

 proper places. A small but interesting collection of thirty-six 

 species of the fruits of native forest trees, accompanied by wa- 

 ter color sketches of the flowers of the same species, has been pre- 

 sented to the Society by Miss E. M. Jack of Chateauguay Basin, 

 Canada. Some of our members may possibly remember this col- 

 lection, as having been on exhibition in the Woman's Department 

 of the New England Mechanics Fair last year, where Miss Carter 

 saw it and obtained it as a donation from the exhibitor. The New 

 England herbarium is indebted to Miss C. H. Clarke for 16 spe- 

 cies of Algae. Mr. E. T. Bouve has continued to take an interest 

 in this department and has added a number of specimens to the in- 

 teresting and valuable collection of trees and shrubs of New Eng- 

 land which the society has already received from him. 



Anatomical Collection. 



Mr. Henshawhas expended much time upon this collection, and 

 the whole has been rearranged, and the labels revised. It has 

 been found to contain about 1700 preparations, many of them rep- 



