14 PROCEEDINGS : BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
take place between the 9th and 13th of May, and will be open daily 
from 12 to 4.30. There were forty persons in the class and the 
average attendance was twenty-seven. Twenty-one persons took 
the examination, .out of which number nine passed with honor, 
seven with credit, four simply passed, and one failed. 
The Curator gave the fourth year of a five years’ course in 
zoology, consisting this year of sixteen lessons of two hours each. 
The subjects were Myriopoda, Arachnozoa, and Insecta through 
Coleoptera, leaving the Lepidoptera and other so-called higher 
orders to be treated next year. The number of tickets issued was 
forty-five and the average attendance twenty-five. The excessively 
bad weather had a depressing effect upon this course as upon most 
others. Thirteen only took the final examination and all of these 
passed. 
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND LIBRARIAN, SAMUEL 
HENSHAW. 
Membership. 
During the past year eighty-four Corporate members have been 
elected by the Council. Nine Corporate members have become 
Life members. One Honorary member, James Hall, has died. 
Three Corresponding members, George Baur, Oliver Marcy, and 
O. C. Marsh, have died. 
From the list of Corporate members we have lost by death five 
names, John Cummings, Edmond E. Fernald, James I. Peck, 
Henry P. Quincy, and Edward W. Roper. 
Two Corporate members have resigned, and the names of four¬ 
teen have been stricken from the list for non-payment of dues. 
The membership of the Society, corrected to May 3, 1899, con¬ 
sists of 10 Honorary, 139 Corresponding, and 420 Corporate mem¬ 
bers, a total of 569. There are 17 Patrons. 
The number of Corporate members reported last year was 363 ; 
twenty-three is the greatest number elected in any of the antecedent 
seven years, and for the essential increase this year the Society is 
indebted mainly to the abundant faith and efficient work of its 
President, Professor Minot. 
