JOHNSON: REPORT OF THE CURATOR. 
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In going over the collections, special attention was given to locating 
and designating types, figured or mentioned specimens, tlie number 
. of lots referable to this class being 163. A card catalogue of these 
has been made, and a catalogue of the types, etc., will be published 
as soon as the foreign collection has been studied. 
In company with Dr. R. T. Jackson, Mr. Cushman visited the 
fossiliferous deposits of Gay Head, Martha’s Vineyard. He dis¬ 
covered the layer containing the fossil crabs and obtained what is 
perhaps the best series extant, and also obtained a number of fossil 
plants, shark teeth, etc. Mr. Cushman has also labeled and placed 
on exhibition a representative series of the Eocene fossils donated by 
Rev. L. T. Chamberlain and referred to in my last report. The 
collection contains about 550 trays. A series of specimens etched 
out by acid, from the white limestone of Nahant, was presented 
by Mr. John M. Sears. The Curator has donated a number of 
Pliocene fossils from Florida, and a fish from the Trias at Boonton, 
1ST. J. Twenty-six specimens of New England minerals were 
received from Mr. J. C. Rand, and a fine example of garnetifer- 
ous gneissic rock from Naples, Me., was presented by Mr. Eli S. 
Weeman. 
Botany. 
During the year Miss Carter has continued her work of revising 
the entire herbarium. Some 18 orders have been omne over includ- 
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ing from the Leguminosae to the Ficoideae and a portion of the 
Umbelliferae. The exhibition series has also been revised and 
dusted. Fifteen persons have consulted the herbarium. Speci¬ 
mens have been received from Messrs. J. A. Cushman, J. A. 
Wheeler, F. E. Allen, and Miss Cora H. Clarke. Forty North 
American lichens were obtained by purchase. 
Mrs. J. M. Arms Sheldon has added a number of species to the 
Synoptic collection, and has placed numbers on all of the specimens 
which correspond with those given in the guide to the invertebrates, 
the manuscript of which is ready for publication. 
The Museum has been well patronized on public days, while on 
other days it has been visited by 451 pupils representing 16 schools. 
Material for study has been loaned to twelve persons. 
