Annual Meeting.] 
2 
[May 2, 
History Garden. This has attracted additional interest to us and 
our affairs, especially during the last month, since the scheme be- 
gan to appear in the newspapers. It is, however, unnecessary to 
go into details in this report. A full account of the past history 
and present condition of this new enterprise has been given in our 
proceedings. The records of the special meeting, called to con- 
sider the question whether the Society would consent to empower 
the council to take necessary measures for the establishment of a 
Natural History Garden, have been printed in the volume for this 
year 1 and also added as an appendix to the reprints of this report. 
The large amount of time necessarily spent in attending com- 
mittee meetings, and other general work, have prevented the Curator 
from giving as much attention 3s.lf#s a b4e!i:cu$tomary to the col- 
lections. Two of the three <3aSeS,* ei*et} tied* *in ’the vestibule for dy- 
namical zoology, stiJl e ramai».Yac^t.Qw.b]g tp tjy§ £aps.e, and also 
the fact that the coll £p fc*i 6n & w hi c h aref$\eijhg p.r.epscrefcl: f<i>r this part 
of our exhibit have demanded more time and study than had been 
anticipated. 
Considerable time has already been spent in devising ways of 
exhibiting the phenomena of dynamical zoology, but progress is 
necessarily very slow in the absence of funds that can be devoted 
to the purchase of specimens. 
Geology. 
Mr. Crosby has finished the preparation and arrangement of the 
introductory and dynamical geological collections ; and a guide to 
these collections has also been made ready for publication. 
The lithological collection in Room B has been thoroughly re- 
vised and to a considerable extent rearranged, and many new 
specimens have been added. An explanatory text or Guide simi- 
lar to the guide published for the mineralogical collection has been 
planned for this collection. 
The principal accessions include valuable series of specimens 
obtained by exchange from the National Museum and some inter- 
esting material collected by Mr. Crosby in the Black Hills of 
Dakota. 
1 See Proc. vol. xxm, p. 523. 
