562 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1895. 



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

 lication Committee :— 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



The meetings of the Academy have been held during the year 

 without any intermission, a quorum being always present even du- 

 ring the midsummer months. The average attendance has been 

 thirty- three. The verbal communications have been of interest 

 and have frequently been followed by animated discussion. The 

 speakers have been Messrs. Goldsmith, Rand, Wool man, Ryder, 

 Ives, Woodbury, Boyer, Holman, Rex, Morsel!, Morris, Dixon, 

 Leonard, Daland, Abbott, Allen, Pilsbrv, Parvin, Ball, Hopkins, 

 Vaux, Calvert, Oberholtzer, Horn, McCook, Keely, Skinner, Foote, 

 Miller, Lyman, Willcox, Cope, Mercer, Heilprin, Smock, Sommer- 

 ville, Brinton, Schumo and Miss Walter. Several of the most 

 important of these communications have been reported by their 

 authors for publication in the Proceedings. 



Since the last report 608 pages of the Proceedings, illustrated by 

 eighteen plates, have been issued, together with 114 pages and seven 

 plates of the Journal constituting Vol. IX, Part 4. The text 

 of the memoir by the late Andrew J. Parker on the Primate brain 

 has been printed and will be issued as the third part of Vol. X as 

 soon as the plates can be prepared. 



The Conchological Section has continued the publication of the 

 Manual of Conehology, the sustained value of which is testified to by 

 the undiminished subscription list, 585 pages, illustrated by 85 

 plates, nearly all of them colored, have appeared during the year, 

 while the Entomological Section and the American Entomological 

 Society have published, during the same period, 340 pages and 15 

 plates of the Entomological News and 316 pages and 6 plates of the 

 Transactions. These several issues constitute a total of 1,963 pages 

 and 131 plates, a gratifying evidence of the activity of the Publica- 

 tion Offices of the Academy. 



Thirty-nine papers have been presented for publication from 

 November, 1894, to November, 1<S95, as follows: Samuel N. Rhoads 

 6, Clarence B. Moore 3, Win. J. Fox 3, AVitmer Stone 2, Henry 

 A. Pilsbry 2, John A. Ryder 2, Theodore D. Rand 1 , Gilbert D. 



