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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec., 
are the following: J. Cheston Morris, T. Chalkley Palmer, Frank J. 
Keeley, Thomas S. Stewart, Hugo Bilgram, and Charles S. Boyer. 
At the annual election of officers, the following were chosen for 
the year 1916: 
Director . .J. Cheston Morris, 
Vice-Director .T. Chalkley Palmer. 
Recorder .*..Charles S. Boyer. 
Treasurer Thomas S. Stewart, 
Conservator Frank J. Keeley. 
Corresponding Secretary .Silas L. Schumo. 
Charles S. Boyer, Recorder. 
Entomological Section. —The meetings of the Section have 
been well attended during the year and the communications made 
have been published. A large amount of valuable material has 
been added to the collection. Two members and a contributor 
have been elected. At a meeting held December 13 the following 
officers were elected to serve for the ensuing year: 
Director .Philip Laurent. 
Vice-Director .R. C. Williams. 
Treasurer . .Ezra T. Cresson. 
Secretary .J. A. G. Helm. 
Recorder E. T. Cresson, Jr. 
Publication Committee E. T. Cresson, 
Philip P. Calvert, 
E. T. Cresson, Jr. 
Henry Skinner, Recorder. 
Botanical Section.— The Conservator spent most of February 
and March in Porto Rico in company with Dr. and Mrs. N. L. 
Britton, of the New York Botanical Garden, and Prof. John F. 
Cowell, of the Buffalo Botanical Garden. Sets of more than 2,500 
herbarium numbers were collected, in addition to many living plants 
for the gardens. The Academy has received its share of the collec¬ 
tions, which is being prepared for the general series. Other important 
additions are a number of New England plants collected by Mr. 
Bayard Long and Prof. M. L. Fernald. 
More than 3,000 sheets of plants, received from various members 
of the Philadelphia Botanical Club, have been mounted for the 
local herbarium by Mr. S. S. Van Pelt. 
