1893 .] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 
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At the last meeting the following 
as officers for the coming year :— 
Director, . 
Vice-Director, . 
Treasurer, . 
Conservator , . 
Recorder, . . . . 
Publication Committee, 
gentlemen were elected to serve 
George H. Horn, M. D. 
Charles S. Welles. 
Ezra T. Cresson. 
Henry Skinner, M. D. 
Henry Skinner, M. D. 
James H. Ridings. 
Charles W. Johnson. 
REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION. 
The Vice-Director of the Botanical Section respectfully reports 
that the general prosperity noted in other years still continues, 
though the work of the Conservator is seriously hampered by reason 
of the crowded condition of the Herbarium shelves. 
Meetings have been regularly held except during the Summer 
recess. Discussions on matters of botanical interest have been fre¬ 
quent, and two original papers of value to general science on the 
botany of the Peary Expeditions and researches relative to the 
jelly glands of Brasenia peltata, have been accepted for publi¬ 
cation in the Proceedings of the Academy. 
Donations to the Herbarium have been liberal: reaching the 
the number of 2,599 species; 2,344 were of flowering plants and ferns, 
of which 596 were new to our collection. 
The Section is free from debt. The officers elected for the en¬ 
suing year are: 
Director, .... 
Vice-Director, 
Conservator, 
Recorder, .... 
Recording Sec’y and Treasurer, 
W. S. W. Ruschenberger, M. D. 
Thomas Meehan. 
John H. Redfield. 
Charles Schaffer, M. D. 
Stewardson Brown. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Thomas Meehan, 
Vice-Director. 
REPORT OF THE MINERALOGICAL AND GEOLOGICAL 
SECTION. 
Meetings of the Section have been held at the Academy regularly 
during the year, except in the summer and in September and Oc¬ 
tober, when most of the members are absent. 
