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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec., 
Director, 
Philip Laurent. 
H. W. Wenzel. 
E. T. Cresson. 
E. T. Cresson, Jr 
Vice-Director , 
Treasurer, 
Secretary, 
Conservator and Recorder, 
Publication Committee, 
E. T. Cresson, 
E. T. Cresson, Jr 
Henry Skinner, M.D. 
Botanical Section. 
Early in the year the work of putting the species of flowering plants 
into covers was completed, which will prove not only a convenience 
in studying, but will also secure a decrease in the possible breakage of 
specimens. 
The most notable addition during the year has been the Albert 
Commons Herbarium of Delaware plants, representing his collecting 
during half a century. It is probably the most complete series of the 
flora of the State, including not only the flowering plants and ferns, 
but also the lower forms, fungi, etc. The collections were presented 
to the Academy by Messrs. Frank W. and Howard W. Commons, of 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
Other donations include a collection of 50 species of Bucks County, 
Pa., Cratcegus from Dr. C. D. Fretz; 160 Cratcegus and other trees 
and shrubs from the Arnold Arboretum; 250 specimens of plants from 
the eastern United States from E. B. Bartram, and smaller collections, 
aggregating about 150 specimens, which will be noted in detail in the 
Additions to the Museum. 
The Section has purchased 500 specimens of California and Nevada 
plants from A. A. Heller; 40 specimens of Cratcegus from Willard W. 
Eggleston and 100 Mexican mosses from C. G. Pringle. 
The Conservator spent the time from May 22 to June 2 of the present 
year in the Bermudas, where a collection of about 250 plants was made, 
and, though not large in species, enabled him to determine some 
uncertain records, besides adding a number to the known flora of the 
islands. The results of this and two previous trips are embodied in 
a paper in the current number of the Proceedings. 
The Philadelphia Botanical Club has continued to hold its meetings 
in the herbarium of the Academy during the year, and through the 
energy of its members 2,100 sheets have been added to the local 
collection, in the care of which Mr. Samuel S. Van Pelt has continued 
his valuable services as Curator. 
Acknowledgment is made of the services of Miss Ada Allen as 
assistant in the herbarium during the year. 
