Annual Meeting.] 310 [May 5, 



coholic materials of insects and other invertebrates. Donations 

 have also been received from Dr. H. Hagen and Messrs. S. H. 

 Scudder and F. H. Sprague. 



Birds. 



Mr. Henshaw has completed the rearrangement of the Passeres 

 and Picariae, which occupy one-half of the upper gallery and two 

 side rooms. He has arranged the genera in the sequence followed 

 by Wallace, and has grouped the species of the same geographical 

 regions together. 



Large labels indicating the characters, and giving the distribu- 

 tion of all the different families, have been prepared for printing. 



The late Dr. Samuel Cabot had desired that his cabinet of birds 

 might be given to the society, and his wishes were carried out by 

 his heirs during the past official year. This collection is of great 

 value since it contains the types described by Dr. Cabot in the 

 Proceedings of this society, and a number of birds very valuable 

 for our New England collections. About three-fourths of the 

 mounted specimens have been identified by Mr. Brewster and 

 these have been catalogued and distributed by Mr. Henshaw in 

 the general collections. The collection consisted of 400 mounted 

 birds and a little more than 900 skins. The skins have been safely 

 stored in cans. 



Mammalia. 



A few species have been added to the New England and Gen- 

 eral collections by exchange and donation. 



The departments not mentioned remain substantially the same 

 as when last reported upon. 



Teachers' School of Science. 



The liberal action of the trustee of the Lowell fund in defraying 

 the expenses of the lessons, and also in continuing to grant the 

 use of Huntington Hall, has enabled the Society to persevere in its 

 effort to extend the benefit of the instruction in this school to 

 teachers of all the neighboring towns as well as to those living in 

 Boston. The agents who acted in the adjoining towns and villages 

 last year continued their kind offices, distributing and receiving 



