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The Brachiopoda of the Cambrian and Ordovician were studied 
and specimens selected for exhibition. The brachial supports were 
also studied, seventy-one figures selected to show evolution of the 
cardinal area and twelve to show the general development. 
The Echinodermata have been studied; about fifty figures have 
been examined and more or less prepared and thirty pages of the 
text revised. 
A few other figures have been selected among mollusks and 
worms, and seventeen from among the insects. 
Mrs. Sheldon has donated a number of species sj)ecially selected 
as the most suitable representatives of the different groups, and she 
has also prepared a considerable number of pages of manuscript 
not mentioned above. 
Miss Martin was occupied during a large part of the summer in 
making colored drawings for this collection. These and the fine 
suites of specimens recently acquired will, it is hoped, soon be 
ready for exhibition, owing to the generosity of the assistant who 
is now having these mounted at her own expense. 
Botany. 
In addition to the facts stated above it is necessary to notice the 
work done during the year. Miss Carter has not, unfortunately, had 
sufficient remuneration and has not consequently been able to 
expend much time upon the collection. She, however, reports that 
the systematic arrangement of the duplicates is nearly completed 
and that progress has been made in poisoning the specimens of the 
general collection and the special labeling of the Lowell Collection. 
A number of donations from Mr. Edward Roots, Miss Cora H. 
Clarke, and Mr. C. R. Jones have been received and are gratefully 
acknowledged. 
Fascicle 15 of Seymour and Earle’s Economic Fungi has been 
purchased. 
Twenty-three persons have been permitted to consult the collec¬ 
tions for special scientific purposes under the supervision of Miss 
Carter. 
Paleontology. 
Miss Elizabeth B. Bryant began work on this collection last June, 
immediately after her appointment as Assistant in the Museum, 
