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The following annual reports were referred to the Publication 

 Committee : 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



1914. 



Ten meetings have been held during the year with an average 

 attendance of thirty. 



Thirty-three papers have been presented for publication, as follows: 



E. G. Vanatta, 4; Henry A. Pilsbry and Amos Brown, 3; Henry 

 W. Fowler, 2; N. E. Mclndoo, 2; Howard Crawley, 2; Henry Fox, 

 1; F. J. Keeley, 1; John H. Lowell, 1; Edward P. Poulton, 1; 

 Witmer Stone, 1; H. Newell Wardle, 1; Henry A. Pilsbry, 1; Charles 

 S. Boyer, 1; Albert M. Reese, 1; Roy Chapman Andrews, 1; Harold 

 Heath, 1; Phil and Nellie Rau, 1; D. N. Barringer, 1; Burnett 

 Smith, 1 ; Stanislas Meunier, 1 ; Joseph C. Thompson, 1 ; Charles P. 

 Alexander, 1; Nathan Banks,' 1; T. D. A. Cockerell, 1; James 

 Chester Bradley et ah, 1. 



Five of these communications were returned to the authors and two 

 await publication. The others have all appeared in the Proceedings. 



Of the Proceedings 794 pages and 41 plates have been published. 

 413 pages, illustrated by 16 plates, have appeared of the Transac- 

 tions of the American Entomological Society (Entomological 

 Section of the Academy). The Section has also issued 480 pages 

 and 18 plates of the Entomological News. 357 pages and 36 plates 

 have been added to the Manual of Conchology by Dr. Pilsbry. 

 This is an increase of 480 pages and 17 plates over the total output 

 for last year. 



Seven members and eleven correspondents have been elected. 

 The deaths of fifteen members and five correspondents have been 

 announced. Resignations of membership have been accepted from 

 William W. Keen, M.D., Edward Anthony Spitzka, M.D., and 

 C. Hartman Kuhn. Four members were dropped for non-payment 

 of dues. 



A final report of the Centenary Celebration was read at the meeting 

 of December 2, 1913. A resolution expressive of the Academy's 

 appreciation of the work of the Committee having charge of the 

 celebration was adopted and duly recorded in the published Pro- 

 ceedings. 



