500 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1898. 



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

 lication Committee : — 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



With a view to supplying matters of interest for the meetings of 

 the Academy and thereby increasing the attendance, the Committee 

 on Instruction and Lectures has been charged with the duty of pre- 

 paring an announcement of the programme for each month, postal 

 card notices being sent accordingly to the members. By this means 

 the average attendance has been slightly increased from 25 to 28, 

 the largest number being 135 and the smallest, at the midsummer 

 meetings, being 6. The communications presented and the discus- 

 sions based on them have frequently been interesting, but, except in 

 a few cases, they were not records of the results of original investiga- 

 tion and were not, therefore, prepared for publication in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Academy. The speakers during the past year were 

 Messrs Skinner, Goldsmith, Rand, Carter, Dixon, Ferrier, Heilprin, 

 Keeley, Woolman, Pilsbry, Chapman, Holman, Stewardson Brown, 

 Calvert, Stone, Frazer, Sharp, Palmer, Spiller, Mills, L. Witmer, 

 Barr, Holman, Lyman, Vaux, U. C. Smith, Willcox, Conklin, Mont- 

 gomery, Chas. Morris, Harned, J. Cheston Morris, Wells, Brinton, 

 J. Wharton James, Libbey, A. E. Brown, A. F. Witmer and Miss 

 Keller. 



Six hundred and fifty-two pages of the Proceedings illustrated by 

 twenty-seven plates have been issued. Twenty-five pages of the 

 Journal with one plate and a large number of text illustrations have 

 been printed and distributed in the form of an author's edition, the 

 entire expense of publication having been defrayed by Mr. Clarence 

 B. Moore, the continuation of his valuable work on the southern 

 burial mounds constituting the subject matter of the issue. 



It forms the first portion of the second number of Volume XI of 

 the Journal, the continuation, on which the printer is now engaged 

 consisting of Prof. Cope's posthumous paper on the fossils of the Port 

 Kennedy Bone Cave, to be illustrated by four plates of the remains 

 of the new species described, and one by Mr. H. C. Mercer on the 

 general characters of the cave, the mode of making the explora- 

 tions, and his methods of preserving and recording the results, with 

 text illustrations. These papers, it is hoped, will be distributed 

 early the coming year. 



