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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec., 
Morococha; monticellite, Magnet Cove; natrochalcite, Chuoui- 
camata; diamond in matrix, S. Africa; chiastolite, California; 
gageite, Franklin, N. J.; delafossite and mottramite, Bisbee, Ariz. 
Respectfully submitted, 
F. J. Keeley, 
Curator William S. Vaux Collection. 
REPORTS OF SECTIONS. 
Biological and Microscopical Section. 
The Section held nine regular meetings during the year with the 
usual attendance. 
Various communications were made by Messrs. Morris, Palmer, 
Keeley, Stewart, Van Sickel, Schumo, Bilgram, and Boyer. 
At the annual meeting with the Academy, the program included 
addresses by Mr. T. C. Palmer, on the collecting and preparing of 
Diatoms; by Mr. Charles S. Boyer, on Philadelphia Diatoms; 
by Mr. W. H. Van Sickel, on the methods of labelling slides; and 
by Mr. Hugo Bilgram, on rock inclusions. 
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. 
Report of the Entomological Section. 
Two hundred and fourteen glass-covered boxes have been pur¬ 
chased to accommodate the growth of the collections. Nine thousand 
one hundred and eighty-seven specimens have been added by gift, 
purchase, and exchange, and most of them have been mounted and 
incorporated. 
Thirty-four drawers of Lepidoptera have been transferred to make 
room for other insects and one cabinet was emptied and sold. 
The families Geometridse and Sphingidse, the genera Ornithoptera 
and Papilio, and the life-histories have been rearranged. 
