48 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Botany. 
The work in this department still continues to progress under the 
patronage of Mr. John Cummings. Miss Carter reports as follows: — 
Progress has been made in the systematic arrangement of dupli¬ 
cates, which will be completed another year. The labeling of the 
Lowell collection with special labels has been carried on during the 
year and is nearly finished. The additions have been mounted and 
distributed in their proper places. 
Accessions during the year were as follows : Miss C. H. Clarke, 3 
specimens, New England Algae; also a copy of Farlow’s Marine 
Algae for herbarium use. Mr. F. S. Collins, 160 specimens, New 
England Algae. Prof. W. O. Crosby, 240 specimens, French 
cryptogams, belonging to herbarium of the late Fred. Pech. Miss 
Harriet E. Freeman, 18 specimens, plants from British Columbia 
and Yellowstone Park. Nine specimens of southern plants have 
been received by exchange with Biltmore Herbarium, N. C., and 263 
specimens of lichens from the Cummings, Williams, and Seymour 
collection of North American lichens by purchase. 
Twenty-seven persons have been permitted to consult the her¬ 
barium under supervision of Miss Carter. 
Geology. 
The work on the Geology of the Boston Basin and on the collec¬ 
tions has been progressing and a number of important additions 
have been made by purchase during the past year, but owing to the 
unfortunate sickness of Professor Crosby no report can be made 
until the next annual meeting. 
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Palaeontology. 
A very valuable series of palaeozoic fossils, mostly corals, have 
been added by purchase from Mr. G. K. Greene. This department 
needs considerable special work, and will, it is hoped, receive its 
proper share of attention next year. We have on hand a number 
of important fossils that would make valuable additions to our 
•exhibition collections, and this whole department needs revision. A 
suite of fossil fishes from the Green River region has been purchased 
from Mr. G. B. Frazar. 
