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Director, . . 



Vice-Director, 



Recorder, 



Secretary, 



Treasurer and Conservator, 



Dr. Spencer Trotter. 

 George S. Morris. 

 Stewardson Brown. 

 William A. Shryock. 

 Witmer Stone. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Witmer Stone, 



Conservator. 



REPORT OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SECTION. 



The Anthropological Section of the Academy, the formation of 

 which was authorized by votes of the Academy on April 23d and 

 30th, 1895, was organized on the evening of April 30th, Dr. Harrison 

 Allen being chosen as Chairman, Charles Morris as Secretary and 

 Treasurer. It has held meetings in May, October, November and 

 December, and has received special communications from Mr. John 

 Ford on Indian grave mounds, from Drs. Mills, Ball and others 

 on brain and skull degeneration, and from Dr. Sharp on the 

 Ethnology of Alaska and Siberia. Twenty-eight members have 

 joined the Section. A meeting for organization was held in Decem- 

 ber, at which the following officers were elected: — 



Director, . . ' . . . Harrison Allen, M.D. 



Vice-Director, ..... Dr. C. N. Peirce. 



Recorder, . * . . . . Charles Morris. 



Secretary and Conservator, . . M. V. Ball. 



Charles Morris, 



Recorder. 



REPORT OF THE PROFESSOR OF INVERTEBRATE 



PALEONTOLOGY. 



The Professor of Invertebrate Paleontology respectfully reports 

 that the condition of the collections that were under his charge until 

 December 1st — when his duties became associated with the Depart- 

 ment of Geology — remains much as it was at the time of the filing 

 of the last annual report. As for a number years past, the one 

 great obstacle to arrangement and classification in the deficiency 



