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The Recording Secretary presented the following 

 ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1856, 



During the past year, December 1, 1855, to November SOth, 1856, there have 

 been elected thirty-one Members and ten Correspondents. 



Six Membershave died, to wit : Mr. Thomas Fisher, Isaac A. Pennypacker, M. D., 

 Mr. Jonathan Edwards Taggert, Madison Rush, late U. S. Navy, Mr. Samuel B. 

 Ashmead, and Edmund Lang, M. D. 



During the same period the following Papers have been presented to the 

 Academy for publication in the Journal or Proceedings : 



By the Reverend M. J. Berkeley and the Reverend M. A. Curtis. " A Com- 

 mentary on the ' Synopsis Fungorum in America Boreali Media Degentium.' By 

 L. De Schweinitz." Published in the JournaL 



By John Cassin, four, to wit : " Notices of some new and little-known Birds 

 in the collection of the U. S. Exploring Expedition in the Vincennes and Peacock, 

 and in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ;" "Notes 

 on North American Birds in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia;" "Descriptions of new species of African Birds in the Mu- 

 seum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, collected by Mr. P. 

 B. DuChaillu, in Equatorial Africa ;" " Descriptions of new species of Birds in 

 the National Museum, Washington, and in the Museum of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia." 



By T. A. Conrad, two, to wit: "Notes on the Miocene and Post-pliocene Deposits 

 of California, with descriptions of two new fossil corals;" " Description of a new 

 species of Pentamerus." 



By James Deane, M. D. " On the Sandstone Fossils of the Connecticut river." 

 Published in the JournaL 



By Elias Durand. " Plantee Kaneanae Articae et Polares." Published in the 

 Journal. 



By Charles Girard, M. D., four, to wit : " Contributions to the Ichthyology of 

 the Western Coast of the United States ;" " On a new genus and species of Uro- 

 dela ;" " Researches upon the Cyprinoid Fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of 

 the United States of America, west of the Mississippi Valley ;" "Notice upon the 

 species of the genus Salmo, of authors." 



By Edward Hallowell, M. D., seven, to wit: "On anew species of Ambystoma 

 from Lake Superior;" "Descriptions of two new Urodeles from Georgia;" 

 " Notes on the Reptiles in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia;" " On several new Reptiles in the collection of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia;" " Notes on the Reptiles in the collection of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia;" " Notice of a collection of 

 Reptiles from Kansas and Nebraska ;" " On a new and remarkable genus of 

 Ranidse from the river Parana." 



By L. Harper. " Ceratites Americanus." 



By Rufus Haymond, M. D. " Birds of Southern Indiana." 



By Thomas P. James. " An enumeration of Mosses detected in the Northern 

 United States, which are not comprised in Gray's Manual." 



By Robert Kennicott. " Description of a new Snake from Illinois." 



By Isaac Lea, LL. D.,nine, to wit: "Description of new fresh water shells of 

 California;" "Description of a new species of Triquetra;" " Description of a 

 new genus of Naiades ;" "Description of twenty-five species of Exotic Unios ;" 

 " Description of four new species of Exotic Unios ;" " Description of thirteen 

 species of Exotic Periostoma;" "Description of fifteen new species of Mela- 

 niana;" "On the Byssus in the genus Unio;" "Description of eleven new 

 species of Uniones from Georgia." 



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