No. 2.— PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING, 
MAY 6, 1903. 
REPORT- OF THE CURATOR, CHARLES W. JOHNSON. 
My brief connection with the Society, and the work necessary to 
establishing a new home, leave very little for me personally to report, 
but through the kindness of Mr. Hensliaw, Professor Crosby, and 
the assistants, I am able to give the following items of progress. 
Mrs. J. M. Arms Sheldon has continued her work on the synoptic 
collection as planned by Professor Hyatt and herself, working on 
the Cephalopoda, Vermes, Crustacea, Araclinida, Myriapoda, and 
Insecta, and adding to the collection Comatula, Ovula, Endoceras, 
Baculites, Ammonites, Belemnites, Zygaspira, Lumbricus, Nereis, 
Apus, Scolopendra, nest of trapdoor spider, Cambarus, Lepisina, etc., 
92 specimens in all, 53 Denton mounts, containing 69 specimens, and 
89 plates with 119 figures; the latter are all drawings made espe¬ 
cially for the collection. The entire manuscript of a guide to the 
invertebrates is completed. 
Miss Maria E. Carter has continued her work on the herbarium, 
revising, cataloguing, and poisoning some 16 orders. Twenty persons 
have had access to the herbarium for reference and comparison, and 
42 specimens have been added to the collection, including 30 speci¬ 
mens of New England algae, presented by Miss C. H. Clarke. 
Miss E. B. Bryant has gone over the entire collection of New 
England Crustacea, including the Amphipoda returned by Professor 
Kingsley and recently studied by Dr. S. J. Holmes, placing them in 
clean alcohol and labeling all that are identified. The New England 
spiders have all been classified, placed in new - vials, with fresh 
alcohol, and 140 species (160 vials) have been put on exhibition. 
A card catalogue of the New England Invertebrata has been started 
and the Crustacea, Tunicata, and spiders finished. .Some work was 
also done on the European fossils. Miss Bryant resigned April 1. 
Miss Martin has assisted Mrs. Sheldon in preparing drawings for 
the synoptic collection, andrhas recently, gone over , the entire 
alcoholic material and replenished where necessary. 
The type,of the, large. Galapagos tortoise loaned to the lion. 
