Excerpt from Annual Address Read by E. W. Blatchford A. M., President of the Academy, January 22, 1878: With the Reports of the Secretary and Treasurer In Botany, the extensive herbarium of the Academy, destroyed in the great fire, the life work of Dr. Scammon, and also the collee tions of our first vice-president, Professor babcock, bear testimony to the exuberant flora of prairie and forest about us. In Ornithology, in addition to the well known proximity of' the migratory lines of the vast flocks of waterfowl, as they pass to and fro between their northern and their tropical homes, it may not be generally known that we are located near the base of the triangular forest area, extending from the southern line of our lake basin to a point seventy or eighty miles to the north, which has furnished some of the rarest specimens in this department found in our zone. Indeed the birds of the arctic and tropical regions here meet. I learn from our Secretary that the Opportunities for collecting speci mens of Insect Life about our lake are equally good. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.