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ralist for April. An additional label bearing the name of the Society 
is being placed on all slides to avoid a possibility of their being lost. 
Paleontology. 
The work in this department has been largely that of rearranging 
and condensing so as to give more space to the New England birds. 
The types in the Eser collection of foreign fossils, have as far as 
possible been catalogued and indicated on the label. Mr. Cushman 
again visited Gay Head and obtained a large number of fossils, 
especially crustaceans. The results of a study of these will shortly 
be published by him in the American naturalist with figures. A 
single specimen of Cancer proavitus Packard was obtained. The 
type of this species has recently been presented to the Society by 
Mrs. A. S. Packard. The Devonian plants from Perry, Maine, have 
been studied by Dr. David White, resulting in one new species, and 
the discovery of a type. The type of Gennaeocrinus carinatus 
Wood, has been received from the Massachusetts institute of tech¬ 
nology in exchange for material for class work. A series of lower 
Cambrian fossils from Weymouth, Mass., was received from the 
Paleontological department of Harvard university. 
Botany. 
Miss Carter has continued her work of revising the herbarium, 
having finished the Polypetalous group, which is represented by 
6259 species and 10,960 specimens. The Caprifoliaceae, Rubiaceae, 
Dipsacaceae, and part of the Compositae have also been studied. 
Miss Susannah Minns has presented 300 specimens, chiefly White 
Mountain plants and western grasses. Seventeen persons have 
consulted the collection. 
There has been a marked increase in the number of visitors to the 
museum on public days, while on other days it has been visited by 
362 pupils representing 14 schools. Material for study has been 
loaned to nineteen persons. 
