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REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 
Six meetings has been held during the present year. The attend¬ 
ance has been good and many interesting and valuable verbal com¬ 
munications have been made. The year has been an eventful one 
in the history of the Section. More commodious quarters have been 
occupied and work in all of the orders of insects has been consequ¬ 
ently stimulated. The collections are in better condition than ever 
before and they are being well protected against museum pests. The 
Section has been fortunate in having aid from a number of its 
members interested in special branches of entomology. Dr. H. G. 
Griffith has done excellent work in the rearrangement of the exotic 
Coleoptera and Mr. Gerhard has worked industriously on the Mar- 
tindale Lepidoptera. A number of valuable collections have been 
presented and many small lots of insects. These are enumerated in 
the list of additions to the musenm. It is hoped that the display 
collection in the museum may be rapidly increased for the benefit 
of the visiting public. So far as the collections for study are con¬ 
cerned, little is to be desired, as in a number of the orders we 
have the finest collections of American species in the world. 
Ten numbers of the Entomological News have been published 
forming 256 pages and 11 plates. At the meeting of the Section 
held Dec. 23rd. the following were elected to serve as officers for 
the coming year: 
Director ,.Chas. S. Welles. 
Vice-Directory .Philip Laurent. 
Treasurer , . . . . . . E. T. Cresson. 
Conservator and Recorder, . . . Henry Skinner. 
Secretary ,.Wm. J. Fox. 
Publication Committee, . . . {C W ^Johnson 
Henry Skinner, 
Recorder. 
REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION. 
The Director of the Botanical Section respectfully reports that 
though the work of the Section has had to be performed almost 
wholly by the volunteer labors of its members, the general progress 
of the year has been satisfactory. Much valuable assistance could 
have been secured in the distribution of various collections awaiting 
