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executed on behalf of the Academy, May, 1, 1888, and the following 

 resolution for the appointment of the required committee was 

 adopted : — 



Resolved — That a committee not exceeding five, to be appointed 

 under the deed of trust of ^Nlrs. Emma W. Hayden, shall first be rec- 

 ommended by the Council of the Academy and shall be selected 

 from the members at larsre and their names submitted to a vote of 

 the Academy annually, and if said vote of the Academy shall show 

 their election, they shall act as such committee under said deed. 



The thanks of the Academy were ordered, November 20, to be 

 conveyed to Mrs. Clara Jessup Bloomfield Moore for her liberal addi- 

 tion of 85000.00 to the Jessup Fund endowed by her father, the late 

 A. E. Jessup. By subsequent action of the Council the entire amount 

 was ordered to be placed to the credit of that portion of the fund 

 which is appropriated to the assistance of young naturalists. 

 All of which is respectfully submitted. 



Edw. J. XOLAX. 



Recording Secretary. 



REPORT OF CORRESPOXDIXG SECRETARY. 



The duties of the Corresponding Secretary during the past year 

 have been neither important nor onerous. 



The correspondence has related mainly to the publications of the 

 Academy, being either acknowledgments from corresponding socie- 

 ties or the usual letters transmitting their publications. 



The acknowledgments number sixty by letter and forty-three by 

 card, divided as follows : 



By card, American societies 23, Foreign 20. 

 By letter, American societies 15, Foreign 45. 



The letters of transmittal represent thirty-eight bodies, of which 

 but one is American. These, with the latter exception, are very 

 nearlv all those continuing their sendings through the International 

 Exchange Agency. 



During the past year the duties of the office were kindly perform- 

 ed bv the Curator-in-charge for five months in the interval of the 

 Secretary's absence abroad. 



An opportunity was aiforded of seeing personally the officers 

 in charge of the libraries of some of our corresj^onding societies, and 



