448 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1888. 
the arrangement of the families Neritidce , Phasianellidce and Turbi- 
nidce has been nearly completed.” 
No changes have been made in the By-Laws of the Section. 
The officers of the Section for 1889 are :—• 
Director, .... W. S. W. Ruschenberger. 
Vice-Director, 
Recorder, . 
Treasurer, . 
Secretary, . 
Librarian, . 
Conservator , 
John Ford. 
Edward J. Nolan. 
S. Raymond Roberts. 
John H. Redfield. 
Edward J. Nolan. 
Henry A. Pilsbry, 
Respectfully submitted, 
S. Raymond Roberts, 
Recorder . 
REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION. 
The Vice-Director of the Botanical Section respectfully reports a 
continued interest on the part of the members. The membership 
continues about as heretofore, the meetings have been regularly at¬ 
tended, and many facts of great interest brought to the attention of 
the Section and discussed by the members. The Section is out of 
debt with a small surplus in its treasury. 
The officers elected for the year ensuing are:— 
Director, .... Dr. W. S. W. Ruschenberger. 
Vice-Director, . . . Thomas Meehan. 
Recorder, .... Dr. Charles Schaffer. 
Cor. Secretary and Treasurer, . Isaac C. Martindale. 
Conservator, .... John H. Redfield. 
A most gratifying announcement is the completion of the great 
task of mounting all the specimens in the herbarium of North 
American plants as covered by Gray's Synoptical Flora. This was 
commenced in 1878, by the Conservator, Mr. John H. Redfield, as¬ 
sisted at various times by Messrs. F. Lamson Scribner, Isaac Burk 
and the late Charles F. Parker. 
The encouraging growth of the herbarium noted in our former 
annual reports, still continues. The large number of 1089 species 
were added to our former list, making 28,306 as the total number 
of species of vascular plants represented in the herbarium. 
