290 PROCEEDINGS : BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND LIBRARIAN, SAMUEL 
HE NS HAW. 
Membership. 
During the past year one Honorary, ten Corresponding, and 
fifteen Corporate members have been elected by the Council. Two 
Honorary members, Rudolph Leuckart and J. J. Steenstrup, have 
died. From the list of Corresponding members we have lost eight 
names, Harrison Allen, E. Baldamus, Oscar Fraas, Frithiof Holm¬ 
gren, G. II. Horn, Thure Kumlein, R. E. Rogers, and L. Rutimeyer. 
Nine Corporate members, C. Allen Browne, Isaac C. Cooper, Joseph 
S. Fay, Gardiner G. Hubbard, John Jeffries, John A. Loring, John 
Lowell, Theodore Lyman, and Jules Marcou, have died; four have 
resigned, and the names of two have been stricken from the list 
for non-payment of dues. 
The membership of the Society corrected to May 4, 1898, consists 
of 11 Honorary, 141 Corresponding, and 363 Corporate members, 
a total of 515. 
The number of Corporate members remains the same as reported 
last year and, though as high as at any time during the last seven 
years, falls short of what the city of Boston should furnish. A 
Committee on the increase of membership will endeavor during the 
coming year to enlist all interested in the objects and aims of the 
Society, and with the personal cooperation of the members it is 
expected that a material increase will be effected before May, 1899. 
The names of the members elected and the dates of their election 
are as follows : — 
Honorary. — Michael Foster. Feb. 16, 1898. 
Corresponding . 
Charles E. Beecher. Feb. 16, 1898. 
Carl Claus. Feb. 16, 1898. 
Sigmund Exner. Feb. 16,1898. 
James Geikie. Feb. 16, 1898. 
David S. Jordan. Feb. 16, 1898. 
Arnold Lang. Feb. 16, 1898. 
Richard Lydekker. Feb. 16, 1898. 
Felix IHateau. Feb. 16, 1898. 
Hermann Snellen. Feb. 16, 1898. 
