i895-3 513 [Annual Meeting. 
Miss Isabel L. Johnson, 1 specimen Pin lis pinea. 
Mr. T. T. Bouve, 5 specimens New England collection. 
Mr. Henry Brooks, 17 sjjecimens sections of wood. 
Mr. Geo. F. Curtiss, specimens Jamaica ferns, also I s]>eci- 
men ITniola paniculata. 
Mr. E. W. Roper, 40 specimens Jamaica ferns. 
Mr. B. P. Mann, 14 specimens, mostly lichens. 
Twenty-eight persons have been allowed the use of the herba- 
rimii, and fully as much time devoted to this work as during the 
preceding year. 
Synoptic Colleotiox. 
^liss J. M. Arms, the assistant placed in chai-ge of this collec- 
tion during the past official year, has accomplished considerable 
toward the completion of this important department. Sponges 
have been rearranged and illustrations hung in place ; specimens 
of Hydrozoa and illustrations have been prepared and drawn by 
Miss Martin ; the text of the guide for this part of the collection 
has been revised and enlarged ; series of specimens of starfishes 
and Pelecypoda have been picked out and prepared for exhibi- 
tion ; and considerable portions of the text of the guide for 
Echinodermata and Pelecypoda have been written. Work has 
also been done upon the preparations showing homologies of the 
Arachnozoa, and the descriptive text for these preparations has 
been written. A series of brachiopods illustrating the evolution 
of the more characteristic forms of this important groii}) has 
been selected. A number of specimens of Gasteropoda and 
Cephalopoda have also been selected. 
Paleontology. 
Professor Crosby and Miss Ballard have collectetl and stu<lied 
the drift fossils, and published in the American journal of science, 
vol. 48, December, 1894, ai^aper, "Distribution and probable age 
of the fossil shells in the drumlins of the Boston Basin," embody- 
ing the results of their work. The collection made by them has 
been placed in a case so that it can be consulted. 
PKOCEEDINGS B. S. N. H. VOL. XXVI. 33 SEPT. 1895. 
