NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 
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1890.] 
Scutellinidce, Haliotidce and Fissurellidce, and the Helices of Mada¬ 
gascar, Japan and Australia. He has identified and relabeled the 
specimens of each group in the collection as they were studied. The 
first series of the Manual now approaches an end; the true Limpets 
and the Chitons only remaining unfinished. The second series has 
progressed as far as the completion of the true Helices. The Philip¬ 
pine Island group Cochlostyla will be considered in the volume for 
1891, the illustrations for which are already well advanced. The 
Conservator has been assisted during a number of months of the 
year by Mr. F. C. Baker, a gentleman whose willingness and effi¬ 
ciency deserve high commendation. 
At the annual meeting, held December 4th, the following officers 
were elected to serve during the ensuing year:— 
Director, 
Vice-Director, 
Recorder, 
Secretary, 
Treasurer , 
Librarian, 
Conservator 
W. S. W. Ruschenberger. 
John Ford. 
Edward J. Nolan. 
J. H. Red field. 
S. R. Roberts. 
Edw. J. Nolan. 
Henry A. Pilsbry. 
H. A. Pilsbry, 
Conservator. 
REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 
Since the last report the Section has prospered in many ways. 
There has been an increase in the interest taken in entomology by 
its members, and the meetings have been well attended. A number 
of interesting verbal communications on entomology have been 
made at the several meetings, and several valuable papers have 
been published by the Society and Section. Two members and two 
associates have been elected during the year. The various collec¬ 
tions are in fairly good order. The ^arrangement of the exotic lepi- 
doptera has been completed; it was made up of the collections of 
the American Entomological Society, the Academy, and that given 
bv the heirs of Mr. T. R. Peale. Over one thousand specimens 
have been added to the North American collection, a very small 
proportion of these having been purchased. 
There have been over seven hundred additions to the library. 
The journal entitled “Entomological News,” which is published by 
