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the Academy. Two members and two associates have been elected. 
The journal of the Section, Entomological News, has been success¬ 
fully continued and three hundred and forty pages and fifteen plates 
published during the year just closed. It will be continued in the 
new year, and an illustrated edition of six hundred copies of thirty- 
two pages per mouth will be printed. At the annual election held 
December 9th the following were elected officers to serve during the 
coming year:— 
Director, 
Vice- Director, 
Recorder, 
Treasurer , 
Secretary, 
Conservator, 
Publication Committee, 
Recorder. 
George H. Horn, M.D. 
Charles S. Welles, 
Henry Skinner, M.D. 
Ezra T. Cresson. 
William J. Fox. 
Henry Skinner, M.D. 
r Charles W. Johnson, 
{ James H. Ridings. 
Henry Skinner, 
REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION. 
The Botanical Section respectfully reports that the general pro¬ 
gress noted in former annual reports still continues, notwithstanding 
the severe loss sustained by the death last April of its most zealous 
and untiring member, John H. Redfield, who had been the able 
Conservator of the Academy’s Herbarium since the formation of 
the Section. His death renders the recommendation of former 
years, that a permanent Conservator should be employed, still more 
pressing. It is believed that a fund of $20,000 would yield enough 
to make a fair start in this direction. Mr. Redfield perceived this 
necessity, and generously willed that his scientific books aud collec¬ 
tions should be sold to form the nucleus of such a fund. To aid in 
this laudable object some of the members of the Section organized a 
“Redfield Memorial Herbarium Fund,” to which a little less than 
$1,000 have been subscribed, hoping to add to it the coming year. It 
is earnestly hoped that the Academy will lend a vigorous aid in the 
establishment of this fund. Until the whole amount is subscribed, 
the interest will go to the purchase of additions to the collection. 
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