1894.] NATUKAI^ SCIENCKS OF PHILADEI.PHIA 



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

 lication Committee: — 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



The interest in the meetings of the Academy has been well sustained 

 during the past year, and the work of the Publication Committee, the re- 

 port of which it is customary to include in that of the Recording Secre- 

 tary, has been of more than the usual in]portance. The attendance at 

 the meetings has averaged thirty-six. Verbal communications have 

 been made by Messrs. Sharp, Ryder, Dixon, Libbey, Chapman, Cope, 

 VVillcox, Wistar, Pilsbry, Holman, Goldsmith, Rand, Mercer, 

 Brinton, Allen, Heilprin, Woolman, A. E. Brown, Ball, Sangree, 

 Eakins, Morsell, McCook, Wilson, Rhoads, Morris, Johnson, Rex, 

 and McFarlane. Such of these communications as have been re- 

 ported by their authors have been published in the Proceedings. 



During the year 192 pages of the Proceedings for 1893 and 376 

 for 1894, illustrated by 13 plates have been published. The first 

 and second numbers of the tenth volume of the Journal, composed 

 of two elaborate memoirs by Clarence B. Moore on the sand mounds 

 of Florida, and consisting of 246 pages and 33 plates, have also 

 been issued and distributed. Material is now in the hands of the 

 Publication Committee for the completion of the ninth volume, which 

 has been delayed in consequence of the character of Mr. Moore's 

 papers, and it is hoped that the last number will be distributed to 

 subscribers and correspondents early in the spring. There will 

 then remain in the hands of the Committee for the continuation of 

 the tenth volume a memoir on the development of the brain in the 

 Anthropoids, by the late Dr. Andrew J. Parker, and one on the crania 

 of the Sand Mounds of Florida, by Dr. Harrison Allen, the latter 

 to be elaborately illustrated through the liberality of Mr. Clarence 

 B. Moore, to whom the Academy is also indebted for the fine plates 

 accompanying his own communications. 



The Manual of Conchology has been continued by the Conchologi- 

 cal Section, 482 pages and 79 plates having been published in the 

 two series of which the work consists, while 340 pages and 10 plates 

 of the Entomological Kews and 344 pages and 8 plates of the Trans- 

 actions of the American Entomological Society have been issued by 

 the Entomological Section. 



