■ S93.] 127 [Annual Meetinfj. 
Annual Meeting, May 3, 1893. 
President W. IT. Niles in tlie chair. Twenty-seven persons 
present. 
The following? repoi-ts were piesented : — 
Report of the Curator, Alpheus Hyatt. 
The past official year has not been marked by the occnrrence of 
many events of ini])ortance which can be advantageously noticed in 
the introduction to this report, and yet the Society as a whole has 
never been more active or made faster ])rogress. 
The new By-Laws, which have guided us this year, were not 
regarded with favor by some members on account of the i-adical 
changes introduced by their adoption, but the business of the 
Society has been conducted with more ease and promptness b}^ their 
aid than by the older system. 
The resignation of Mr. Samuel Henshaw as assistant in the 
Museum, in the montli of October, deprived that division of the 
services of a faithful and remarkably efficient officer who for inanv 
years had served us in general charge of the collections. It was 
not found practicable to fill this vacancy immediately, aiul the 
amount of work done in the Museum has been considerably lessened 
on this account. 
It is to be regretted also that the jMiisenni has tfinpoiai-ily lost 
on account of absence from the couiitiy the services of Mrs. Ramsay 
who worked so effectively upon the collections of microscopical 
materials last year. 
We are indebted to Mr. John Cummings, Mr. C. I>. ^^ory, jMi-. 
T. A. Watson, Miss J. M. Anns, and Miss K. D. lioardman for 
their voluntary labors in our collections which are again noticed 
l)elow under the proper headings. 
As in years past, our Museum has been used by (dasses from 
the Institute of Technology, and more or less by students coming 
separately to study in the collections on closed days. Permission 
to visit and study in the Museum on days when the public is not 
admitted has been granted to eleven teachers , representing thirteen 
schools and two hundred and seventeen pupils. 
Tlie practical completion of the collections in the dej)artments 
of mineralogy and geology brings the Society to a turning point 
