Annual Meeting.] 
14 
[May 5 , 
On motion of Mr. F. W. Putnam the reports were accepted. 
A letter from Dr. James C. White declining re-election on the 
Committee on Comparative Anatomy was read. 
The Society then proceeded to the election of officers for the 
year. Messrs. S. F. Whitney and R. W. Greenleaf being requested 
to collect and count the ballots, reported that the following gentle- 
men, nominated at the previous meeting, were unanimously 
elected. officers for 1880-81. 
PRESIDENT. 
SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. 
VICE-PRESIDENTS , 
JOHN CUMMINGS, F. W. PUTNAM. 
CUSTODIAN, 
ALPHEUS HYATT. 
HONORARY SECRETARY, 
S. L. ABBOT, M.D. 
SECRETARY, 
EDWARD BURGESS. 
TREASURER, 
CHARLES W. SCUDDER. 
UBRARIAN, 
EDWARD BURGESS. 
COMMITTEES ON 
Minerals. 
Thomas T. Bouve, 
R. H. Richards, 
M. E. Wadsworth. 
Geology. 
L. S. Burbank, 
Wm. H. Niles, 
Rev. G. Fred. Wright. 
Palceontology. 
Thos. T. Bouvi, 
N. S. Shaler. 
Botany. 
John Cummings, 
Charles J. Sprague, 
J. Amory Lowell. 
Microscopy . 
Samuel Wells, 
R. C. Greenleaf, 
B. Joy Jeffries, M.D. 
Comparative Anatomy. 
Thomas Dwight, M.D., 
W. F. Whitney, M.D. 
DEPARTMENTS. 
Radiates, Crustaceans and Worms. 
H. A. Hagen, M.D., 
Alexander Agassiz, 
L. F. de Pouktal£s. 
Mollusks. 
Edward S. Morse, 
J. Henry Blake. 
Insects. 
S. H. Scudder, 
Edward Burgess, 
A. S. Packard, Jr., M.D, 
Fishes and Reptiles. 
F. W. Putnam, 
Theodore Lyman, 
S. W. Garman. 
Birds. 
J. A. Allen. 
Samuel Cabot, M.D. 
Mammals. 
J. A. Allen, 
E. L. Mark. 
Geo. L. Goodale, M.D. 
