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quite unexpected beauty, as art can at present secure. The Academy 

 is indebted for this continuation of the Journal to the liberality and 

 devotion to his chosen branch of science of Mr. Clarence B. Moore. 



As evidence that the building operations and movings have not 

 curtailed the work of the Publication Committee, it may be noted 

 that the issue of the various serials now sent out under the auspices 

 of the Academy is 129 pages in excess of that of last year, which itself 

 was unusually productive. The number of illustrative plates, however,. 

 is 38 less than reported in 1908. The record is as follows : Proceed- 

 ings, 636 pages and 27 plates; Journal, 252 pages and 8 plates; 

 Entomological News, 444 pages and 22 plates; Transactions of 

 the American Entomological Society (The Entomological Section 

 of the Academy), 486 pages and 12 plates; Manual of Conchology t 

 250 pages and 26 plates, making a total of 2,068 pages and 95 plates. 



The index to the publications of the Academy has been completed 

 up to and including the volume of the Proceedings for 1905. 



The short history of the Academy prepared as a contribution to 

 the Founders' Week Memorial Volume and read at the meeting of the 

 Academy held April 6 has been published. It will be issued in a 

 separate edition and distributed to members, correspondents and others 

 interested, in the hope that it may elicit comment, criticism and per- 

 haps correction, which will render of more permanent value the detailed 

 history in course of preparation for the Centenary of the Academy 

 in 1912. 



The accumulated stock of the Proceedings, Journal and mis- 

 cellaneous publications, held for sale and exchange, has been removed 

 from the upper story of the middle building to cases prepared for 

 storage in the basement. This is the fourth time this material has 

 been moved to provide for the requirements of other interests since 

 the occupancy of the corner building in 1876. It has been well said 

 that three movings are as bad as a fire, and it is earnestly to be hoped 

 that the present resting place will be permanent until the parts are 

 distributed in fulfilment of their legitimate purpose as contributions 

 to science. Incidentally an account of stock has been taken. 



Ten members and five correspondents have been elected. The 

 deaths of fourteen members and six correspondents have been 

 announced. Messrs. J. H. Austin and Henry Pemberton have resigned. 

 The loss sustained by the Academy in the death of Henry Cadwalader 

 Chapman, so intimately concerned for many years with the scientific 

 and administrative interests of the society, requires more than passing 

 mention, and the Recording Secretary has been charged with the 



