486 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1892. 



two volumes in continuation of the first and second series of the 

 work, devoted respectively to Marine Univalves and Pulmonata, 

 having been completed. They consisted of 420 pages and 126 

 plates. During the same time the Entomological Section has dis- 

 tributed 268 pages and 10 plates of the "Entomological News," and 

 307 pages with 16 plates of the Transactions. As it is through its 

 publications the Academy is brought into communication with the 

 scientific world, the record of its activity in this department during 

 the past year is most gratifying. 



Twenty-four papers have been jiresented for publication as fol- 

 lows :— H. A. Pilsbry 4, Edw. D. Cope 3, J. E. Ives 2, William 

 B. Scott 2, Thomas Meehan 2, William J. Fox 1, Isaac J. Wistar 

 1, Carl H. Eigenmann and Rosa S. Eigenmann 1, Henry C. Chap- 

 man 1, A. P. Brown 1, Witmer Stone 1, Henry Skinner 1, John A. 

 Ryder 1, Horace A. Hofl^man 1, Ernest Walker 1, and Edw. L. 

 Green 1. One of these was returned to the author, one was with- 

 drawn by the author, and the others have either been published or 

 are in the hands of the printer. The greater number of communi- 

 cations made verbally at the meetings have been reported by the 

 authors and printed in the Proceedings. 



The edition of the Proceedings of the Academy is 1,000 copies, 

 90 of which are sent out to subscribers, and 500 to exchanges. Of 

 the Journal 500 cojiies are printed, 37 are sent to subscribers and. 

 50 to exchanges. 



It is again necessary to urge the desirability of greatly enlarg- 

 ing the Publication Fund so as to enable the Publication Committee 

 to secure prompt issue, with creditable illustrations, of all worthy 

 communications presented to the Academy. Our obligations to 

 our correspondents increase yearly, and the liberal exchanges for 

 which, as will be seen by the Librarian's report, we are indebted 

 to kindred societies throughout the world, still constitute the chief 

 and by far the most important additions to our library. In this 

 exchange of the results of brain-work, the Academy cannot afford 

 to be on the debtor side of the account. 



Sixty members and six correspondents have been elected, an 

 important increase in the former over the accessions of recent, 

 years. The deaths of ten members and of three correspondents have 

 been announced and recorded in the published Proceedings. The 

 following members have resigned : — Otto Luthy, Minford Levis 

 M. D., Robert Meade Smith M. D., Henry Hartshorne M. D., W. 



