Annual Meeting.] 522 [May i, 
Dr. Grcenleaf asks me to express his thanks to Profs. W. H. 
Niles, W. O. Crosby, and Mr. G. H. Barton, for the use of mate- 
rials from their laboratories ; also to Miss Hetty O. Ballard and 
Mr. Amadeus W. Grabau for valuable assistance. 
The series of special courses given by the Curator was con- 
tinued. Nineteen lessons of two hours each were given, exclu- 
sive of the examination, beginning on November 3, 1894, and 
ending on March 30, 1895. The examination was held on April 18, 
1895. The whole number of tickets issued was about forty, and 
the average attendance was thirty. This increase over last year 
was probably due to the subjects treated, insects and vertebrates, 
t'le study of these being more popular among teachers than that 
of the simpler forms of the animal kingdom. Fifteen persons 
took the examination, and the results were as gratifying as in 
previous years. 
Report of the Secretary and Librarian", Samuel Henshaw. 
Membership. 
Twenty-two Corporate members have been elected by the 
Council ; three have died, three have resigned, and six have been 
dropped for non-payment of dues. 
In the death of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes the Society has 
lost one of its earliest members, one whose name has been upon 
the roll since April 6, 1831. 
Ten Corresponding members have been elected; four have 
died. 
Two of the most honored of our Honorary members, Prof. 
James Dwight Dana and Joseph Hyrtl, have died. 
Mention of the death of Mrs. Augustus Hemenway, a patron 
of the Society, and at one time a generous supporter of the 
Teachers' School of Science, should have been made last year. 
Mrs. Hemenway died, March 6, 1894. 
The present membership of the Society consists of 14 Honor- 
ary, 149 Corresponding, and 857 Corporate members, a total of 
520. Until the number of- our Corporate members equals the 
present total number of members, once a year is not too often to 
call the earnest attention of all solicitous for the welfare of the 
Society to the need of adding to our roll. 
