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

 lication Committee : — 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



The average attendance at the meetings of the Academy during 

 the past year, from December 1, 1895, to November 30, 1896, was 

 forty. Verbal communications were made by Messrs. Woolman, 

 Goldsmith, Rand, Mercer, Brinton, Sharp, Vaux, Heilprin, Cope, 

 Chapman, Allen, Pilsbry, Carter, Keeley, Lyman, Holman,Sangree, 

 Egbert, Sommerville, Dixon, Leeds, Stokes, Campbell, Wistar, A. 

 P. Brown, Willcox, Frazer, Morris, Skinner, A. E. Brown, Rother- 

 mel, Henry, Leonard, Morsell, Dolley, A. D. Smith, Rhoads, Stone, 

 Fox, Reese, Ball, Horn, McCook, Seiss, Calvert, Balch, Hamilton, 

 Richardson and Miss Bascom. Those that were reported by their 

 authors were published in the Proceedings. 



Six hundred and nine pages of the Proceedings, illustrated by 23 

 plates, and 297 pages of the Journal, with 53 plates, forming Parts 

 III and IV of the tenth volume, have been issued. We are indebted 

 to Mr. Clarence B. Moore for the illustrations of both numbers. 



The publication of the MmiMal of Conchology has been continued 

 by the Conchological Section. During the year Parts 63, 64 and 

 64a of the 1st Series (Marine Univalves), and Parts 39 and 40 of 

 the 2d Series (Pulmonata) have been issued. The former consists of 

 157 pages illustrated by 44 plates, and the latter 121 pages illus- 

 trated by 27 plates. The first parts of Vols. XVII and XI respect- 

 ively of the two series are now in press. The expense of publication 

 of the Manual, copiously illustrated as it is with colored plates, is so 

 great that the Section would be unable to continue it were it not for 

 the support received from conchologists throughout the world. 



The Entomological Section and the American Entomological So- 

 ciety have published, during the same period, 288 pages and 7 plates 

 of the Entomological News and 386 pages and 11 plates of the 

 Transactions. 



This makes a total of 1,858 pages and 165 plates issued under the 

 auspices of the Academy since the first of last December. 



Forty papers have been presented for publication, as follows: — 

 H. A. Pilsbry, 5 ; Harrison Allen, M. D., 3 ; Samuel N. Rhoads, 3 ; 

 Edw. D. Cope, 3 ; Ida A. Keller, 2 ; Wm. J. Fox, 2 ; R. W. Shu- 



