536 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1897. 



The following annual reports were read and referred to the Pub- 

 lication Committee: — 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



The average attendance at the meetings of the Academy during 

 the past year has been 25. There has been no occasion of sufficient 

 interest to fill the room and thus raise this average as has usually 

 been the case in former years, while the separation of special inter- 

 ests into Sections, at the meetings of which communications are 

 made, has continued to detract from the interest of the general ses- 

 sions of the Academy, although the cooperation of the Biological 

 and Microscopical Section and, less frequently, that of the Mineral- 

 ogical and Geological Section, have been productive of good re- 

 sults. 



Verbal communications have been made by Messrs. Rand, Sharp, 

 Goldsmith, Pilsbry, J. C. Morris, Carter, Woolman, G. Vaux, Jr., 

 S. Brown, Morsel], Skinner, Chapman, Calvert, Holman, Dixon, 

 Heath, Keely, Conklin, Palmer, Kelly, Mercer, Schaeffer, Frazer, 

 Allen, Peirce, Crawford, Stewart, Reese, C. Morris, Griffiths, Boyer, 

 Wells, Garrison, Sullivan, Mrs. Bladen and Miss Walter. But few 

 of these were reported by their authors for publication and they 

 can, therefore, only be referred to in the written minutes of the 

 Academy. 



Four hundred and eighty-four pages of the Proceedings illustrated 

 by 13 plates, and 144 pages of the Journal with 17 plates, forming 

 the first part of Volume XI, have been issued. As heretofore, we 

 are indebted to Mr. Clarence B. Moore for the beautiful illustra- 

 tions of his interesting paper on the mounds of the Georgia coast 

 constituting the number. 



The Conchological Section has continued the publication of the 

 Manual af Conchology, 288 pages and 51 plates having been pub- 

 lished since the last report, while the Entomological Section and the 

 American Entomological Society have published 539 pages and 15 

 plates in the same period, making a total of 1,455 pages and 96 

 plates added within the year to scientific literature. 



Thirty-eight papers have been presented for publication as fol- 

 lows : H. A. Pilsbry 5, H. A. Pilsbry and E. G. Vanatta 1, H. A. 

 Pilsbry and Benjamin Sharp 1, S. N. Rhoads 5, S. N. Rhoads and 

 Robert T. Young 1, Wm. J. Fox 2, T. D. A. Cockerel! 2, T. D. A. 

 Cockerell and W. J. Fox 1, Witmer Stone 2, Ida A. Keller 2, Per- 



