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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec., 
The collections are in a good state of preservation, but additional 
cases are needed and more space for the department is desirable. 
At the annual meeting, held December 26, the following were 
elected to serve as officers for the year 1902: 
Director , ...... Philip Laurent. 
Vice-Director, ..... H. W. Wenzel. 
Treasurer, . . . . . . E. T. Cresson. 
Recorder and Conservator , . . . Henry Skinner. 
Secretary, . . . . . . C. W. Johnson. 
Publication Committee, . . . . J. H. Ridings, 
C. W. Johnson. 
Henry Skinner, 
Conservator. 
REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION. 
The Botanical Section reports that the herbarium is in a gener¬ 
ally satisfactory condition. Much progress has been made in the 
work of arrangement during the year. 
About 5,500 specimens have been added to the collections, 
largely through purchase, the most important being a portion of 
the collections of Mr. A. A. Heller, from Virginia, North Caro¬ 
lina, Texas, Arizona, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and 
California, numbering twenty-five hundred specimens and contain¬ 
ing about 250 types, cotypes and authentic specimens, with many 
from original type localities. These will add very materially to 
the North American series of plants. 
Other purchases have been 129 specimens of Porto Rican plants 
from A. A. Heller, 190 specimens of Mexican plants from C. G. 
Pringle, 776 specimens of Canary Island plants from Dr. Theo¬ 
dore Bornmuller, and 250 specimens of West Australian plants 
from Dr. Pritzel. 
Donations numbering about 2,000 specimens have been received 
from Col. C. A. H. McCauley, William M. Canby, Benjamin H. 
Smith, Uselma C. Smith, C. F. Saunders, Witmer Stone, E. G. 
Vanatta and Stewardson Brown. 
The mounting of the general herbarium was completed in Septem- 
