NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 
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gressed satisfactorily during the year, about 15,000 sheets having 
been mounted, completing the work through the Scrophulariacese. 
These specimens have been incorporated in the general collections, 
thus in many instances crowding the cases, so that additional room 
is required. 
The local herbarium of the Philadelphia Botanical Club has 
been enriched by donations from its members aggregating about 
500 specimens. 
The meetings of the Section, at which a number of communica- 
tions of scientific interest have been presented, have been held 
regularly during the year. 
At the meeting held December 8, 1902, the following were 
elected to serve as officers for the ensuing year : 
Director, . 
Vice-Director, . 
Recorder, . 
Corresponding Secretary, 
Treasurer and Conservator, 
Benjamin IT. Smith. 
Joseph Crawford. 
Dr. Ida A. Keller. 
John T. Pennypacker. 
Stewardson Brown. 
Mineralogical and Geological Section. 
The Director reports that nine meetings were held, with an aver- 
age attendance of eight members. Six field meetings were held, 
at which the attendance was large. Some of the specimens col- 
lected were given to the Academy. 
The officers elected for the ensuing year are as follows : 
Director, . 
Vice- Director, 
Treasurer, 
Conservator, 
Recorder, . 
Theodore D. Rand. 
Benjamin Smith Lyman. 
Emma Walter. 
F. J. Keeley. 
Charles Schaffer, M.I). 
Ornithological Section. 
During the past year the Conservator has completed the arrange- 
ment of the mounted birds on the new ornithological floor, so far 
as the case-room will pei-mit. The four large cases and three small 
ones now in place cover about 900 square feet of floor space and 
accommodate almost all of the water-birds and the majority of 
