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An excursion was made by the Section on May 25th, which 
seemed to be very satisfactory to those attending it. 
The Director would urge, if means can be found for the purpose, 
the increase of the local collection, which, he believes, could be made 
of value. The chief expense of this would be in cases, as it is 
probable that nearly all the specimens needed would be presented; 
in fact a considerable number have been promised as soon as case- 
room is provided. 
At the meeting of the Section, held December 23d, the following 
officers were elected for the ensuing year:— 
Theodore D. Rand. 
. Wm. W. Jefferis. 
. Wm. W. Jefferis. 
John Ford. 
Chas. Schaffer. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Theo. D. Rand, 
Director. 
Director, 
Vice-Director, 
Conservator, 
Treasurer, . 
Corresponding Secretary ) 
and Recorder, ) 
REPORT OF THE ORNITHOLOGICAL SECTION. 
The work of cataloguing and rearranging the Ornithological col¬ 
lection has gone on steadily during the past year; and, although not 
quite so many specimens have been worked over as in the previous 
year, this has been more than compensated by the large increase in 
the labelling and cataloguing. 
The Conservator has been enabled to devote a considerable amount 
of his time to the work, as has also Mr. McCadden, the taxidermist, 
while valuable assistance has been rendered by Mr. Henry W. 
Fowler, Miss Helen M. Higgins and Mr. Wm. J. Gerhard. 
During the year 4,193 mounted specimens have been worked 
over, the best of them being remounted and the types and duplicates 
reduced to skins, and all the material not hitherto named has been 
carefully identified and catalogued. In addition to this a large 
number of temporary lists were copied into the regular catalogue, 
which has now been brought up to date, while a considerable num¬ 
ber of labels for specimens in the exhibition cases have been pre- 
