570 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Dec, 



The following Reports were ordered to be printed : 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



It is gratifying to be able to report that, notwithstanding the impor- 

 tant and, it might be supposed, disturbing building operations of the 

 past year, the routine work of the Academy has been but little inter- 

 fered with. The October meetings, indeed, had to be omitted, because, 

 while the old Library Hall was dismantled, the new Reading Room 

 was not quite ready. The meetings of the Academy will hereafter 

 be held here, except on occasions of extraordinary and therefore large 

 attendance, when the Lecture Hall on the floor below will be avail- 

 able. Fourteen meetings were, therefore, held during the Academic 

 year, at which the average attendance was forty-four. Verbal com- 

 munications, for the most part illustrated, were made by Messrs. 

 F. Creighton Wellman, John W. Harshberger, F. Lynwood Garrison, 

 Philip P. Calvert, Thomas H. Montgomery, Jr., J. M. MacFarlane, 

 Henry Skinner, Frank F. Keeley, Arthur Erwin Brown, Edwin G. 

 Conklin, Henry A. Pilsbry, Stewardson Brown, Gilbert Van Ingen, 

 Edwin T. Wherry, Benjamin Smith Lyman, and the Secretary. 



Thirty-six papers have been received for publication from the 

 following authors: Henry A. Pilsbry, 4; H. A. Pilsbry and James H. 

 Ferriss, 2; H. A. Pilsbry and E, G. Vanatta, 1; H. A. Pilsbry and 

 C. Montague Clark, 1 ; H. A. Pilsbry and Y. Hirase, 1 ; H. A. Pilsbry 

 and A. A. Hinkley, 1 ; R. V. Chamberlin, 3; Thos. H. Montgomery, Jr., 

 2; Stewardson Brown, 2; J. P. Moore, 2; John W. Harshberger, 2; 

 James A. G. Rehn and Morgan Hebard, 2; F. Creighton Wellman, 1 ; 

 Charles S. Boyer, 1 ; G. E. Crampton, 1 ; Nathan Banks, 1 ; F. J. Keeley, 

 1; F. W. Weymouth, 1; Robert T. Young, 1; A. E. Verrill and A. H. 

 Verrill, 1; Burnett Smith, 1; Clarence B. Moore, 1; Ales Hrdlicka, 1; 

 Thomas Barbour, 1; Henry W. Fowler, 1. Twenty-nine of these 

 have appeared as portions of the sixty-first volume of the Proceedings ; 

 four have been returned to the authors, and action has been deferred 

 on one. The two papers by Messrs. Moore and Hrdlicka form the 

 first part of the fourteenth volume of the quarto Journal. The 

 number is beautifully illustrated by text figures and eight plates of 

 Indian pottery. The latter are superb specimens of color printing 

 and present as faithful a representation of the objects, themselves of 



