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Academy which will be at once permanent, safe and convenient is 

 one that must be provided for immediately. The importance of 

 this matter is paramount in view of the fact that the reputation of 

 the Academy as a scientific institution depends more on the char- 

 acter of its publications, embodying as they do the notable work of 

 its members during eighty-seven years of its existence, than upon the 

 extent of its library and museum. Its publications keep it in com- 

 munication with other scientific societies ; they form the basis of its 

 exchange in the intellectual markets of the world and place it on a 

 far higher plane than that of a mere local club of naturalists. 



Pending an arrangement of the damaged publications on shelves 

 to be provided for them I have not been able to form estimate of the 

 cost of repair. The electro-blocks of the plates which must be re- 

 placed have been preserved, so that the printing alone will have 

 to be provided for. 



Twenty-one members have been elected. The deaths of eleven 

 members have been announced, four have been dropped and the 

 resignations of nine have been accepted, as follows: — Julius F. 

 Sachse, Charles P. Turnbull, Mrs. L. L. W. Wilson, Charles W. 

 Dulles, Ellen W. Longstreth, Charles Coulter, Ruth Clement, J. 

 Howard Breed and J. Lewis Crew. This leaves a net loss of three 

 from the membership roll. The deaths of nine correspondents have 

 been reported. 



At the instance of the Secretary of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science a committee consisting of Messrs. 

 Meehan, McCook, Wilson, Skinner and Nolan was appointed early 

 in the summer to secure the co-operation of the city authorities and 

 representatives of educational establishments with a view to inviting 

 the Association to meet in Philadelphia in 1899. The invitation 

 was conveyed by a representative of a joint Committee but was not 

 accepted, the place selected for the meeting being Columbus, Ohio. 



The Hayden Memorial Medal was conferred, in accordance with 

 the recommodation of the Committee on Award, on Prof. Otto 

 Martin Torell, the Chief of the Geological Survey of Sweden. 



A note of thanks was unanimously tendered to Miss Anna T. 

 Jeanes for her munificent gift of $20,000 the income of which is to 

 be expended for the improvement and increase of the museum. 



The President of the Academy and Mr. William Wynne Wister, 

 Jr. have been appointed Managers on behalf of the Academy of the 

 Wistar Institute of Anatomy under the deed of endowment. 



