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[May 5, 
Annual Meeting.] 
squam, and during the coming summer our efforts will be contin- 
ued in the same direction. 
Mr. Henshaw reports that the identified portion of the collec- 
tions of Amphibia contains 75 species and 390 specimens. This 
has been arranged, catalogued, the duplicates picked out and 
stored. The New England fauna contains 25 species; of these 
23 are represented in the collection, though only 15 are known to 
have been taken in New England. 
Mr. Garman has returned another part of our collection of Rep- 
tiles authentically named. The identified portion consists now of 
160 species and about 900 specimens. This has been arranged 
and catalogued, the duplicates picked out and stored. The New 
England fauna, not. including a few forms of doubtful occurrence, 
consists of 29 species, of these we have 26, but owing to omis- 
sions in recording the localities, only 21 are placed in the New 
England collection. 
Our rejoicings over the successes of the past year should not 
make us forget that by the decease of Dr. Thomas M. Brewer the 
Society has lost one of its most active and energetic officers and a 
distinguished ornithologist. This gentleman was for many years 
in charge of our birds and in that capacity did good and efficient 
service. We owe to his exertions the fine collection of eggs and 
nests which we possess, and also the New England collection of 
birds. He brought this last named collection to its present condi- 
tion of efficiency, and would have completed it in a year or two 
more, if he had lived. 
Mr. Henshaw has expended considerable time in the inspection 
and care of the collection. The groups already monographed, 
Spheniscidae, Falconidae, and Alcidae, have been arranged and 
labelled by Mr. Henshaw, assisted by Miss Washburn. Dr. Brew- 
er’s last work in the Society rooms consisted in the identification 
and rearrangement of the Trochilidae and partially of the New 
England birds. In this he was assisted by Miss Washburn. 
The less said about the Mammals the better; they are a disgrace 
to the institution, but there is no way of getting a respectable 
collection except by buying the specimens, and this is impossible 
for us. 
