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lias this year spent the larger part of her time upon fourteen of the 
orders of insects, and Miss Martin during her enforced absence has 
been employed by Mrs. Sheldon, free of expense to the Society, in 
making drawings of this group for exhibition in the Synoptic 
collection. About 160 figures have been added to the collection in 
this way and some two hundred more have been selected and 
studied by Mrs. Sheldon, who has also revised and rewritten about 
two hundred and fifty pages of text, added about thirty-one 
specimens to those on exhibition, and made lists of specimens, 
desired to fill our blanks. Unfortunately a considerable proportion 
of these are not procurable, but all that are available will be 
obtained without expense to the Society. Miss Bryant has assisted 
Mrs. Sheldon by mounting and labeling a number of specimens. 
Botany. 
Miss Carter reports that during the past year the systematic 
arrangement of .the Society’s duplicates has been completed. The 
collections in the exhibition cases have received their annual sum¬ 
mer cleaning. The accessions to the herbarium (245 specimens) 
have been mounted and duly incorporated in the collections. 
A thorough revision of the entire herbarium has been undertaken, 
made necessary by the many changes of the past twenty years. 
Thus far the following 18 orders have been finished: Ranuncu- 
laceae, Dilleniaceae, Calycanthaceae, Magnoliaceae, Anonaceae, 
Menispennaceae, Berberidaceae, Nymphaeaceae, Sarraceniaceae, 
Papaveraceae, Cruciferae, Capparideae, Resedaceae, Cistineae, 
Violaceae, Bixineae, Pittosporeae, and Polygalaceae. 
The following accessions are hereby acknowledged: 243 speci¬ 
mens mostly from California and Colorado from Miss Grace G. 
Cowing. A fine specimen of Arceuthobium pusillum from Maine, 
through Mrs. L. P. Jenney; also a Vermont specimen of the same 
plant from Prof. L. R. Jones. 
Seventeen persons have been allowed the special use of the her¬ 
barium, under the supervision of the assistant. 
Paleontology. 
Miss Bryant has spent considerable time in removing faded labels 
and identifying and labeling fossils. A small collection of fossils 
