406 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1887. 



The following annual reports were read and referred to the 

 Publication Committee : 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



The operations of the various departments of the Academy are 

 so fully set forth in the reports of the several officers and Sections 

 that little remains for the Recording Secretary to note of the history 

 of an uneventful but prosperous year except the statistics of pub- 

 lication and exchange. 



One hundred and three pages of the Proceedings for 1886 and 

 three hundred and twenty-eight pages of the volume for 1887 have 

 been issued, the former being illustrated by two and the latter by 

 fifteen plates. The second part of the ninth volume of the quarto 

 Journal, consisting so far of papers by Profs. Wm. B. Scott and 

 Henry F. Osborn is in process of preparation, but, in consequence 

 of an unavoidable change of printers, the work progresses with dis- 

 discouraging slowness. 



Three titles have been added to our exchange list, increasing the 

 number of copies of the Proceedings now distributed to foreign cor- 

 respondents to 382. In addition sixty one copies are mailed to 

 domestic exchanges and one hundred and fourteen to subscribers, 

 making the whole number of each issue sent out 557. 



Twenty-five papers have been presented for publication as 

 follows: Henry F. Osborn 3, Geo. A. Koeuig 2, C. A. White 2, 

 David Starr Jordan 2, C. Rominger 2, Joseph Leidy 1, Otto 

 Meyer 1, Thomas C. Porter 1, Harrison Allen 1, Andrew Garrett 1, 

 Adele M. Fielde 1, Edw. Potts 1, Henry C. Chapman 1, Carl F. 

 Eigenmann 1, John A. Ryder 1, Angelo Heilprin 1, Thomas 

 Meehan 1, Henry C. McCook 1, Charles Wachsmuth and Frank 

 Springer 1. One of these has been accepted for publication in the 

 Journal and the others will form part of the current volume of the 

 Proceedings. 



Communications have been made at the meetings by Messrs Allen, 

 Heilprin, Ryder, Holman, Foote, Koenig, Meehan, Rusby, McCook, 

 Leidy, Brinton, Sharp, Wilson, Binder, Kelly, Trotter, Dolley, 

 Martindale, Willcox, Chapman, Cresson, Parker, Woolman, Cheston 

 Morris and JefFeris. When reported by their authors these, to- 

 gether with occasional notes on the natural history of Swatow, 



