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three weeks and a half for each person. The laboratory was 

 opened on the sixth of July, and kept running until the twentieth 

 of September. 



It mast be remembered also that the laboratory has been very 

 useful to Mr. Van Vleck himself in furnishing him opportunities 

 for the prosecution of his studies, and it is likely to become of 

 value in the future as a station to which an investigator can re- 

 sort, who wishes to study on that part of the coast. 



Secretary's Report. Br Edward Burgess. 



Membership. 



The Society's list of members has fallen off in numbers consider- 

 ably during the past year. By death we have lost two Honorary 

 Members, — Oswald Heer of Zurich, and Joachim Barrande of 

 Paris ; three Corresponding, seven Corporate, and one Associate 

 Members. Two Corporate and five Associate Members have re- 

 signed ; while five and six of these classes, respectively, have 

 been dropped for non-payment of assessments. Sixteen Corporate 

 and four Associate Members have permanently removed from 

 New England, and their names have, therefore, been taken from 

 the roll. The total loss in all classes is thus fifty-one, while only 

 twenty-three new names have been added to the list, as follows : 

 one Honorary, seven Corresponding, six Corporate, and nine As- 

 sociate Members. The Society has also lost by death two of its 

 patrons, Thomas G-. Appleton and Jonathan Ellis. 



Meetings. 



The weather on Wednesday evenings, this winter, has been per- 

 sistently horrible, reducing the average attendance at the sixteen 

 General Meetings to twenty-eight, or five below the average for 

 three years. The largest attendance at any one meeting was fifty- 

 four, and the smallest only four ; while on two other evenings only 

 eight and twelve persons were present. Thirty-five communica- 

 tions in all were made at these meetings. 



The Section of Entomology hibernated for the season, one meet- 

 ing only being held by four persons. 



