1914.] 
NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 
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The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 
Director Dr. J. Cheston Morris. 
Vice-Director . T. Chalkley Palmer. 
Recorder .Charles S. Boyer. 
Corresponding Secretary .Silas L. Schumo. 
Treasurer . Dr. Thomas S. Stewart. 
Curator .F. J. Keeley. 
Charles S. Boyer, 
Recorder. 
Entomological Section. —-The regular monthly meetings have 
been held during the year and communications of interest have 
been made. The proceedings have been published in Entomo¬ 
logical News and are therefore permanently recorded. 
At a meeting held December 14th the following persons were 
elected officers to serve for the coming year: 
Director .Philip Laurent. 
Vice-Director Henry W. Wenzel. 
Treasurer... Ezra T. Cresson. 
Conservator .Henry Skinner. 
Secretary .J. A. G. Rehn. 
Recorder Henry Skinner. 
Publication Committee .E. T. Cresson and E. T. Cresson, Jr. 
Henry Skinner, 
Recorder. 
Botanical Section. —Satisfactory progress has been made in the 
mounting and distribution of specimens in the herbarium, notwith¬ 
standing the absence of the Conservator, through illness, during the 
first half of the year. Additions, which are enumerated in detail in 
the report of the Curators, have agregated approximately 50,000 
specimens, of which 2,700 were purchased. At the annual meeting 
of the Section, held on November 25, the following officers were 
elected to serve for the ensuing year: 
Director... .Benjamin H. Smith. 
Vice-Director Joseph Crawford. 
Recorder .John W. Eckfeldt, M.D. 
Treasurer and Conservator .Stewardson Brown. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Stewardson Brown, 
Conservator. 
