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The following reports were read and referred to the Publication 

 Committee: 



REPORT OF RECORDING SECRETARY. 



The Recording Secretary respectfully reports that during the 

 year ending November 30th, 1875, forty-two members and eleven 

 correspondents have been elected. 



Four members have resigned. 



The following members have died : Rev. Henry S. Spackman, 

 Dr. G. W. Norris, Dr. A. A. Henderson, U. S. N., Dr. R. Bannan, 

 U. S.N., and William E. Whitman. The deaths of Sir Charles 

 Lyell and John Edward Gray, correspondents, were also an- 

 nounced. 



Twenty-seven papers have been presented for publication as 

 follows: Edw. D. Cope, five; R. Ridgway, three; Elliot Coues, 

 three; Thos. G. Gentry, three; W. G. Binney, two; H. R. Morri- 

 son, two ; T. A. Conrad, Dr. Jas. Lewis, E. L. Berthoud, Aug. R. 

 Grote, J. A. Ogden, H. C. Chapman, R. E. C. Stearns, B. F. Lau- 

 tenbach, and 0. A. L. Morch of Copenhagen, each one. Twenty- 

 one of these were ordered to be published in the Proceedings, 

 four in the Journal, one was withdrawn at the request of the 

 author, and one remains yet to be reported upon. 



In addition to the above contributions to the Proceedings and 

 Journal, the verbal communications made at the several meet- 

 ings and published in the Proceedings without being formally 

 referred to committees, have been unusually numerous and im- 

 portant. Those by Dr. Leidy upon the results of his recent 

 microscopical investigations, by Prof. Cope upon the Paleonto- 

 logy of the west and kindred subjects, and by Mr. Thos. Meehan 

 upon vegetable physiology deserve special mention. Interesting 

 verbal communications have also been made by Prof. Frazer, Dr. 

 Chapman, Prof. B. Waterhouse Hawkins, C. Newlin Peiree, Chas. 

 A. Young, Wm. M. Gabb, Geo. Koenig, and Jos. Willcox. 



During the year the concluding thirty pages of the Proceedings 

 for 1874 and 427 pages of the current volume have been published, 

 the latter being illustrated by twenty-four lithographic plates and 

 ninety w T 6od-cuts. 187 pages of the Journal have also been issued 



