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[Annual Meeting. 
We have subscribed to the Journal of Morphology, Broca’s Revue 
d’Anthropologie, the Centralblatt f. Physiologie,the Arch, de Phys- 
iologic, La Cellule, Fol’s, Recueil de Zoologie, Monatschrift f. An- 
atomie und Histologie, and Robin’s Journal. 
Seven hundred and eighty-six books were borrowed from the 
library by seventy-eight persons. One hundred and seventy-nine 
books have been bound. 
The new author’s catalogue will be completed in a few months. 
Publications. 
The following numbers of the Memoirs have been printed : 
Vol. IV, No 2. The Development of the Ostrich Fern, by Dr. 
Douglas H. Campbell, 36 pp. 4 pis. (Walker Prize for 1886.) 
No. 3. The Introduction and Spread of Pieris rapse, by Samuel 
H. Scudder, 18 pp., 1 map. 
No. 4. North American Geraniacese, by William Trelease, 34 
pp., 4 pis. 
No. 5. The Taconic of Georgia and the Report on the Geology 
of Vermont, by Jules Marcou, 27 pp., 1 pi. 
No. 6. The Entomophthorete of the United States, by Roland 
Thaxter (in press). 
The signatures of the Proceedings up to the meeting of Dec. 
7, have been distributed. The remainder up to date are in print. 
Walker Prize. 
No award has been made this year. 
I cannot close my last report as your Secretary without express- 
ing my very deep regret at retiring from an office which I have 
now held for more than sixteen years. 
The uniform kindness which has been shown me by both officers 
and members will never be forgotten ; and, although to-night I 
leave you officially, I am glad to think that I can be present in the 
future as in the past at the Society’s meetings, and I need hardly 
add that my interest in the Society’s work can never flag. 
Report of the Treasurer. 
M r. Charles W. Scudder presented the following report : 
