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The following annual reports were read and referred to tlie 

 Publication Committee : 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



The Recording Secretary respectfully reports that during the 

 year ending November 30, 1886, twelve members and four corres- 

 pondents have been elected. 



Resignations of membership have been received and accepted 

 on the usual conditions, from Dr. Charles Harrod Vinton and 

 Jerome B, Gray. 



The deaths of seventeen members and one correspondent have 

 been announced. 



Eighteen papers have been presented for publication, as 

 follows: Prof. Angelo Heilprin, 2; Chas. Morris, 2 ; S. Frank 

 Aaron, 1 ; Calvin McCormick, 1 ; W. D. Hartman, 1 ; C. Rominger, 

 1 ; Chas. D. Dolley, 1 ; Geo. Yasey, 1 ; Jos. Leidy, 1 ; J. C. 

 Arthur, 1 ; Thos. Meehan, 1 ; Lillie E. Holman, 1 ; John W. 

 Eckfeldt, 1 ; Wm. B. Scott, 1 ; F. A. Genth, 1 ; Geo. A. Koenig, 1. 



One of these has been withdrawn ; one will be printed in the 

 Journal ; one has been deferred in consequence of the inability 

 of the Publication Committee to provide the required illustrations, 

 and the others have been reported on favorably and form part 

 of the current volume of the Proceedings. 



One hundred and twenty-eight pages of the Proceedings for 

 1885, and three hundred and twenty-eight pages of the volume 

 for 1886 have been printed, together with three plates. 



Four foreign societies have been added to the list of exchanges 

 to which the Academy publications are sent, making the entire 

 number at present 379. 



The average attendance at the meetings has been 21. Yerbal 

 communications have been made and for the most part reported 

 for the Proceedings by Messrs. Meehan, Koenig, Heilprin, 

 Woolman, Moody, Morris, Potts, Leidy, McCormick, Holman, 

 A. H. Smith, Seiss, Holstein, Allen, Brooks, Sharp, Harvey, 

 Willcox,U, C. Smith, Foote, Gibbons, Horn, Lockington, McCook, 

 Lewis, Ryder, Dolley, Redfield, Tryon, S. R. Roberts and Miss 

 Abbott. 

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