Annual Meeting.] 
456 
[May 4, 
The arrangement in the cases of the specimens collected in con- 
nection with this local survey has been commenced ; and copies of 
the illustrations, as fast as prepared, will be placed with the speci- 
mens, the plan being to reproduce the more important maps in 
relief. 
Botany. 
The Society has again occasion to tender its thanks to Mr. Johri 
Cummings for the continued support of this important depart- 
ment, which, with the exception of Insecta, is the most difficult 
to keep in good order and proper preservation. 
Miss Carter reports, that the final revision and cataloguing of 
the herbarium has been carried through the cryptogamous plants 
exclusive of Algae, with the following results : 
Genera. 
Species. 
Specimens. 
Filices 
56 
425 
784 
Equisetaceae 
1 
13 
41 
Lycopodiaceae 
3 
37 
76 
Marsiliaceae and Characeae 
7 
21 
48 
Muscineae 
122 
618 
1157 
Hepaticae 
36 
99 
163 
Lichenes 
72 
804 
2458 
Fungi 
282 
1766 
2848 
Total exclusive of Algae. 
579 
3783 
7575 
Progress has been made 
in revising 
and poisonin 
ig the plants of 
the Lowell Herbarium. 
All duplicates of the 
phaenogamous 
plants are now properly 
arranged 
and labeled 
ready for ex- 
changes. 
The following accessions are hereby acknowledged : 
Miss Rodman, four specimens for the New England collection, 
Mr. W. A. Setchell, three specimens for New England collec- 
tion, Mrs. Caroline A. Kennard, a fruit of Ficus elastica (Rub- 
ber tree) grown on a small tree kept in the house. 
Twenty-one persons have been permitted to use the herbarium 
under the supervision of Miss Carter, and about two weeks of her 
time has been d.evoted to this kind of work. About two thirds of 
this number were teachers and students who had become inter- 
ested in botany through the lessons given in the Teachers’ School 
of Science. The information sought for in great part related to 
the flora of New England. 
