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examinations were given, and with the second section ten were 
given. No final examination was considered necessary in either 
section. The class has been very enthusiastic, and as a whole has 
done good work, though an unusual amount of sickness interfered 
seriously with the attendance of several members. 
The spring course in geology for 1894 was begun by Mr. 
Barton on April 28, with an attendance of 75 members, and is 
now in progress. 
The class in botany l)egan its exercises November 4, 1893, 
and ended on March 10, 1894. Fifteen lectures and laboratory 
exercises were given followed by a formal examination at the close 
of the course. Forty-nine applicants were admitted to the class, 
thirty-two of whom were former members. Of these, eleven 
members dropped out in the first one or two exercises, on learning 
that the course was to be a continuation of preceding courses, so 
that the class practically consisted of thirty-eight members. 
The average attendance was thirty-four. 
The subject studied during the year was cryptogamic botany. 
The leading types were exemplified, together with their relations 
to each other and to the ])haenogams studied in preceding years. 
A somewhat similar plan of presentation to that pursued last year 
was adopted, but owing to the difficulties incident to the wider 
range of subjects and the limited facilities for illustration, it was 
found to be less satisfactory, though well adapted for the pur- 
])oses of the course. For illustration one hundred sets of crypto- 
gamic plants, chiefly ferns, mosses, lichens, and certain fungi, 
were collected and dried, so that each member of the class was 
amjily provided with material for study. To this was added 
abundant fresh material, as in the groups of sea-weeds, moulds, 
and the lowest cryptogams, as yeast. Comi)ound microscopes 
were provided in the exercises requiring their use ; and micro- 
scopic ]n'eparations, blackboard diagrams, and monographs on 
special subjects, from the lil)rary of the Society, were freely used 
for further illustration of the subject. The results of the woi-k of 
the year, as shown in the short examinations which pj-eceded 
each exercise, the note books, and especially the final examina- 
tions, were most gratif\ang. Twenty-nine persons took the final 
examination ; of these fourteen passed with especial honor, 
receiving H m 90-100 per cent ; six received C, 80-90 per cent ; 
and nine others P := varying marks between 50 and 80 per cent. 
rROCEEmXGS p.. S. X. II. VOL. XXVI. 19 JULY 1894. 
