1902.] 
NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 
807 
Entomological Section. 
The Recorder reports that the meetings of the Section, at which 
interesting communications were made, have been well attended 
during the year. One member and one associate were elected. 
The Entomological News, the journal published by the Section, has 
been continued, 334 pages and 15 plates having been issued. The 
collections have been useful to our own students, and a number of 
investigators from other scientific institutions have visited the 
Academy to study them. Over 37,000 specimens have been added 
during the year, 25,000 having been collected by an expedition 
sent out by the Academy. Many species new to science have been 
described by the members of the Section and a few have been sent 
to specialists elsewhere for study and description. The collections 
are in a good state of preservation and improved boxes and cabinets 
have been added. Additional floor space has been granted and 
enclosed by the Academy to provide for the growth of the Section. 
At the annual meeting, held December 18, the following were 
elected to serve as officers during the year 1903 : 
Director, 
Vice- Director, 
Treasurer, . 
Recorder and Conservator, 
Secretary, 
Publication Committee, . 
Philip Laurent. 
H. W. Wenzel. 
E. T. Cresson. 
Henry Skinner. 
C. W. Johnson. 
C. W. Johnson, 
J. H. Ridings. 
Botanical Section. 
Accessions to the herbarium fully up to those of former years 
are reported. About 6,000 specimens, principally North American, 
have been received, the greater number being donations. 
The most important of these is a collection of Western American 
plants, consisting of 1,925 species and numbering considerably over 
2,000 mounted sheets, representing most of the characteristic genera 
and a large number of the species of the Rocky Mountain region, 
presented by Mr. Benjamin IT. Smith, the collection having been 
made by him some years ago while living in that district. It com- 
prises, besides plants of his own collecting, those of Pringle, 
