112 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
The following specimens and drawings not mentioned above 
have also been prepared and added to the collection; IB plates, 
containing 75 figures, to the ITydrozoa and Actinozoa ; 1 Porpita 
linnaeana; 1 Spirilla peronii, showing a .portion of mantle, shell, and 
probable disc of attachment; 1 Pneumodermon violaceum ; 1 Cera- 
todus forsteri; 1 green turtle. 
Botany. 
A final report up on-the entire Herbarium, representing more than 
twenty years of continuous labor on the part of Mr. Cummings and 
his assistant, Miss Carter, was made last year, but in that report the 
fact was not properly emphasized that the whole of this, represent¬ 
ing in the aggregate a large expenditure both in time and money, 
has been a donation from Mr. John Cummings. A final report does 
not, of course, imply that there is no more work to do, but simply 
that the great labor of arranging and securing the labels, catalogu- 
ing, etc., has been completed for all specimens except duplicates and 
new accessions. 
During the past year Miss Carter has recatalogued the New 
England collection to correspond with the nomenclature of the 
revised edition of Gray’s Manual. Considerable time has been 
spent on the ferns given by Mr. Roper, and considerable progress 
has been made in the revision and systematic arrangement of the 
Society’s general collection of duplicates. With the additions for 
the year the sum total of the herbarium is 05,025 specimens. The 
following accessions are hereby acknowledged: Mr. E. W. Roper, 
100 specimens Jamaica ferns; Miss C. H. Clarke, 80 specimens 
Algae, mostly New England ; Mr. B. H. Van Vleck, 1 fine speci¬ 
men of Lycoperdon; Mr. J. B. Sweet, section of Betula papyrifera, 
showing peculiar growth ; Mr. E. A. Burt, type of Anthurus borealis ; 
Miss M. Iv. Goddard, 2 specimens for New England collection. 
Fascicle 9 of Seymour and Earle’s collection of economic Fungi has 
been added by purchase. 
Twenty-six persons have been allowed the use of the herbarium. 
Paleontology. 
Last year this department was placed by Miss Ballard’s labors 
fairly on the road to final revision and completion, but unfortunately 
