SI 2 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec. 
not wholly unimportant has been accomplished toward the promotion 
of science. 
The following officers have been elected for the year 1904: 
Director, 
Vice-Director, 
Recorder and Secretary, 
Treasurer, . 
Conservator, 
Benjamin Smith Lyman. 
George Yaux, Jr. 
Miss Mary S. Holmes. 
Miss Emma Walter. 
Frank J. Keeley. 
Benjamin Smith Lyman, 
Vice-Director . 
The Biological and Microscopical Section. 
Xine regular and several informal meetings have been held during 
the year, showing increased interest among the members, who now 
number thirty-five. The Conservator reports that the instruments 
of the Section are in their usual good working order and have been 
in regular use during the year. 
The following additions have been made : 
Eighty-nine slides, principally rock and mineral sections, received 
from the Curators of the Academy. 
Two slides of quartz with inclusions, presented by Mr. Hugo Bilgram. 
One Zentmayer Army Hospital Microscope and outfit, purchased. 
Two small Queen Microscopes with objectives, purchased. 
One Demonstration Microscope, purchased. 
One Acme, No. 3, Microscope stand, formerly the property of Mr. 
Wool man, purchased. 
Among the verbal communications and papers the following may be 
mentioned: New Species of Trachelomonas, by Mr. T. C. Palmer; Myxo- 
mycetes and liquid inclusions in quartz, by Mr. Hugo Bilgram; stained 
diatoms and models of microscopes and accessories, by Mr. F. J. Keeley ; 
butter making and various pathological subjects, by Dr. J. C. Morris; 
remarks on specimens obtained in his travels, by Mr. S. L. Shumo; 
photographs of diatoms, by Dr. T. S. Stewart; slides of diatoms, by 
Mr. W. B. Davis, Mr. John A. Shulze and Mr. C. S. Boyer. 
The Section has lost by death Dr. Charles Shaffer, a learned and 
valued member, and Mr. Lewis Woolman, who by his genial activity 
had become the personal friend of every active member of the 
Academy. 
