MoL-ting.l 51 G [May I, 
Ckustaoea. 
Miss Martin has worked over the stored specinieiis (,>f a part of 
tills collection and ]»laccd them in hel-ter order. 
Araciixida. 
Mr. J. H. Emerton has identified the collection of spiders 
made in Anticosti, Labrador, and at several points in Canada in 
the summer of 1881, and a part of these liave been catalogued, 
labeled, and mounted for exhibition by Mr. Henshaw. 
Insecta. 
Several hundi-ed specimens, principally Coleoptera and Lepi- 
doptera, have been identified, labeled, and made ready for 
exliibition in the New P]ngland and General collections by Mr. 
Ilenshaw. 
Ornithology. 
Mr. C. B. Cory, who has had tliis department in charge, 
having resigned his position, nothing lias been done except to 
secm'e the safe keeping of the specimens. The Society in 
bidding good-b^^e to Mr. Cory, whose private collection has been 
purchased by the Field Columbian museum at Chicago, and 
whose interests have been in consequence transferred to that 
institution, desires to express its regret for his departure and its 
most sincere thanks to him for the efficient and valuafile service 
that he has voluntarily given to its collections since May, 1888. 
The Curator desires to state tliat Mr. Charles F. Batchelder has 
kindly consented to take charge of this department and also of 
the collection of Mammaha. 
New England Collection. 
Consideral)le manual lal)or has been expended on the zoologi- 
cal i)art of this collection, and the recorking and bottling has 
been almost finished. 
