552 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1893. 



The following annual reports were read and referred to the Pub- 

 lication Committee: — 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



The meetings of the Academy during the past twelve months have 

 been held without intermission. The average attendance has been 

 forty-four, fewer occasions of special interest having occurred than 

 during the preceding year when the attendance averaged sixty-four. 

 Verbal communications of more or less interest and importance were 

 made at almost every meeting, among the speakers being Messrs. 

 Cope, Chapman, Ryder, Wright, Sharpies, Goldsmith, Rand, Mc- 

 Cook, Willcox, Lesley, Wistar, Woolman, Pilsbry, Heilprin, Roth- 

 rock, Holman, Ives, Allen, Pierce, Dixon, Zuill, Holstein, Mac- 

 Farlane, Ball, Sharp, Morris, Brinton, A. P. Brown, Morsell, 

 Thomas, Ford, U. C. Smith, Calvert, Moeller, A. E. Brown and 

 Wingate. 



Such of these communications as have been reported by their 

 authors have been printed in the Proceedings. 



Since my last report 194 pages of the Proceedings for 1892 and 

 376 for 1893, with eleven plates, have been issued. Seventy-two 

 pages of an elaborately illustrated memoir on the Sand Mounds of 

 Florida by Clarence B. Moore have also been printed as the begin- 

 ning of the tenth volume of the Journal. These sheets will not be 

 distributed until the completion of the number, which will be pub- 

 lished in advance of the last part of the ninth volume in consequence 

 of the character of the communications in the hands of the Publica- 

 tion Committee. 



In addition to the matter issued at the direct expense of the 

 Academy, the Conchological Section has continued the publication 

 of the "Manual of Conchology" of which 580 pages and 91 plates 

 have appeared since my last report. Numbers of the Entomological 

 News and of the Transactions of the American Entomological Society 

 embracing 731 pages and 91 plates have appeared under the auspices 

 of the Entomological Section, thus making a total of 1,881 pages and 

 193 plates, exclusive of the portions of the quarto Journal printed 

 but not yet distributed. The statistics of distribution remain the 

 same as last year. 



A new edition of the By-Laws and a new list of members and 

 correspondents have also been published. 



