436 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1889. 
and that the attendance on, and interest in them have been fully 
maintained. The section is out of debt, and has a surplus in its 
treasury ; including a donation of $100 from W. G. Warden towards 
a share in the botanical explorations in Asia Minor, now un¬ 
dertaken by Prof. Bornmuller, Director of the Royal Gardens of 
Belgrade. 
Through the interest of members of the Section a number of Bo¬ 
tanical Works have been added to the library of the Academy, while 
the additions to the Herbarium number 2,174, of which 1,585 are of 
flowering plants and ferns. Of these 36 represent genera not before 
in our collection, while of species, 585 are new additions. These 
new additions bring the number of vascular species represented in the 
Herbarium to about 28,805. The additions to the lower crypto¬ 
gams are 589. 
The conservator’s account of the additions in detail is appended 
as part of this report; as also an abstract of the detailed work of the 
Section by the Recorder. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Thomas Meehan, 
Vice-Director. 
Conservator's Report for 1889.—The Conservator respectfully sub¬ 
mits the following annual report upon the state of the Academy’s 
Herbarium:— 1 
The most important additions made during the past year are of 
species from Tropical America, among which are worthy of special 
enumeration, 300 species from the State of Tabasco, Mexico, per- 
sented by Prof. Jose N. Rovirosa ; 373 species from Guatemala, col¬ 
lected by H. Von Tiirckheim and presented by John Donnell Smith, 
of Baltimore ; 243 species from the northern provinces of Mexico, 
collected by C. G. Pringle in 1888, presented by the Conservator, 
and 116 species collected by Dr. E. Palmer at San Quentin Bay in 
Lower California and presented by the U. S. Department of Agri¬ 
culture. 
Through the kindness of Dr. Sereno Watson, of Cambridge, Mass., 
we have received from J. Thistleton Dyer, of the Kew Herbarium, 
Drummond’s Mosses of the Rocky Mountains and British America, 
mounted in two volumes and embracing 249 species and 33 varieties. 
From Ellis and Everhart we have received the 22nd and 23rd 
Centuries of North American Fungi, also a special and selected 
