234 PROCEEDINGS : BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND LIBRARIAN, 
CHARLES F. BATCHELDER. 
Membership. 
Daring the past year seventeen Corporate Members have been 
elected. One Honorary Member, Sir William Dawson, and six 
Corresponding Members, Mariano Barcena, Elliott Cones, Sir Wil¬ 
liam H. Flower, Ilans B. Geinitz, W. T. Hoffman and Alphonse 
Milne-Edwards, have died. 
Three Corporate Members have died: Elizabeth R. Cormier, 
John C. Jackson and Charles T. White, and one Patron, Edward 
Wyman. Two Corporate members have resigned. 
The membership of the Society, corrected to May 2, 1900, con¬ 
sists of 9 Honorary, 130 Corresponding, and 429 Corporate Mem¬ 
bers, a total of 568. There are 16 Patrons. 
The Corporate members elected during the year and the dates of 
their election are as follows : — 
Oakes Ames, Oct. 18, 1899. 
Mary A. Bowers, Oct. 18, 1899. 
John G. Graham, Oct. 18, 1899. 
Charles Harrington, Oct. 18, 1899. 
James J. Minot, Oct. 18, 1899. 
Reginald C. Robbins, Oct. 18, 1899. 
R. T. Atkinson, Dec. 20, 1899. 
Elizabeth E. Bickford, Dec. 20, 1899. 
Henry T. Burr, Dec. 20, 1899. 
George A. Hathaway, Dec. 20, 1899. 
Clement W. Andrews, Eeb. 21, 1900. 
I^aurence Curtis, Feb. 21, 1900. 
George W. W. Dove, Feb. 21, 1900. 
W. E. C. Rich, Feb. 21, 1900. 
M. Eva Warren, Feb, 21, 1900. 
Arthur W. Fairbanks, April 18, 1900. 
Flora G. Roper, April 18, 1900. 
Meetings. 
Fourteen regular meetings of the Society have been held during 
