Annual Meeting.] 
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[May 7, 
The Society then proceeded to ballot for officers for next year. 
Mr. Samuel Henshaw was appointed to collect and count the bal- 
lots. He announced that the following officers had received the 
majority of the votes and they were declared elected : 
PRESIDENT, 
F. W. PUTNAM. 
VIC K-PRESIDENTS , 
WILLIAM H. NILES. B. JOY JEFFRIES. 
CURATOR, 
ALPHEUS HYATT. 
HONORARY SECRETARY, 
J. C. WHITE. 
SECRETARY, 
J. WALTER FEWKES. 
TREASURER, 
CHARLES W. SCUDDER. 
LIBRARIAN, 
J. WALTER FEWKES. 
COUNCILLORS, 
Samuel Henshaw, 
John Amory Jeffries, 
Augustus Lowell, 
Edward S. Morse, 
Ellen H. Richards, 
William T. Sedgwick, 
N. S. Shaler, 
Charles J. Sprague, 
B. H. Van Yleck, 
Samuel Wells. 
MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, EX-OFFICIO. 
Ex-President Thomas T. Bouvic, 
Ex-President S. H. Scuddeii, 
Ex- Vice-President D. Humphreys Storer, 
Ex-Vice-President John Cummings, 
Ex-Vice-President George L. Goodale. 
S. L. Abbot, 
G. H. Barton, 
Edward T. Bouvis, 
Henry P. Bowditch, 
William Brewster, 
Edward Burgess, 
J. H. Emerton, 
Edward G. Gardiner, 
Henry W. Haynes, 
