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

 lication Committee: — 



REPORT OF RECORDING SECRETARY. 



In view of the full reports of the Treasurer, the Curators, the 

 Librarian and the various sections of the Academy, the Recording 

 Secretary has, as heretofore, but little to report apart from the 

 statistics of the meetings of the society and the operations of the 

 Publication Committee. 



One hundred and sixty-eight pages of the Proceedings for 1887 

 and two hundred and seventy-two pages of the current volume have 

 been issued and distributed. Provision has been made for twenty 

 plates in illustration of the papers presented for publication during 

 the year. These number thirty- four and are by the following au- 

 thors: — 



Rev. H. C. McCook 3, W. D. Hartraan 3, Jos. Leidy 2, D. S. Jordan 

 2, Harrison Allen 2, Angelo Heilprin, 2, Thomas Meehan 2, Charles 

 Wachsmuth and Frank Springer 2, H. C. Chapman and A. P. 

 Brubacker 2, H. C. Chapman 1, Otto Meyer 1, B. H. Wright 1, A. 

 M. Fielde 1, E. N. S. Ringueberg ], E. A. Kelly 1, C. Ochsenius 1, 

 John Ford 1, C. R. Keyes 1, H. F. Osborn 1, H. A. Pilsbry 1, J. E. 

 Ives 1, John Eyerman 1, R. W. Schufeldt 1. One of these has been 

 withdrawn by the author and the others are all in course of publica- 

 tion although two or possibly four will have to be held over until 

 the issue of the first sheets of the volume for 1889. 



Eighteen additions have been made to the list of foreign corre- 

 spondents to whom the issues of the Proceedings are distributed, the 

 number being now four hundred. The domestic exchanges are 

 now sixty-eight, an increase of seven over last year. The subscrip- 

 tion list remains the same, so that five hundred and eighty-two 

 copies of the one thousand printed are promptly distributed. 



The second part of the ninth volume of the quarto Journal con- 

 sisting of one hundred and ten pages and five lithographic plates 

 was distributed, after much vexatious delay in the printing office, on 

 the sixth of August. Fifty copies were sent to foreign and twelve 

 copies to domestic exchanges, while thirty-nine copies were supplied 

 to subscribers, making a total distribution of one hundred and one 

 copies of the five hundred printed. 

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