Annual Meeting.] 512 [May i, 
often for months at a time been permitted to give her services to 
the labeling and mounting of other collections, especially in the 
paleontological, mineralogical, and geological rooms, and the 
Society owes much of the fine appearance of those collections to 
her labors. 
The revision of the specimens of the botanical collection has 
been continued through all of these years, and our reports show 
the steadiness and large amount of work done in each year. It 
is, therefore, a matter of serious congratulation that the general 
revision has been comjDleted and that in this report we are able 
to present a summary of the entire herbarium belonging to the 
Society. 
The general collection contains 39,357 specimens, representing 
204 orders, 4,076 genera, '21,515 species. 
The Xew England collection contains 4,531 specimens, repre- 
senting 125 orders, 797 genera, 2,187 species. 
The John A. Lowell collection contains 17,783 specimens, rep- 
resenting 210 orders, 2,322 genera, 8,318 species. 
The C. J. Sprague collection of lichens contains 2,638 speci- 
mens, representing 79 genera, 694 species. 
The Seymour and Earle collection of economic fungi contains 
490 specimens, representing 73 genera, 273 species. 
Sum total of herbarium, 64,799 specimens. 
Our entire herbarium is now accurately named, and in some 
collections there is a large proportion of authentic names given 
by specialists. 
The duplicates will be reported upon next year. 
The poisoning of the plants is about one half completed. 
About two thirds of the specimens in the Lowell herbarium are 
not yet provided Avith special labels, designating the collection to 
which they belong. The revision and copying of the catalogue 
has been begun biit is not included in this report. 
The prepai-ation of suitable specimens that are needed for the 
exhibition collection also remains to be done. 
The following accessions are hereby acknowledged : — 
Miss C. H. Clarke, 9 specimens New England Algae. 
Mrs. Gunning, 35 specimens Florida Algae, 1 specimen ]\ran- 
zanita Burl. 
