342 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [DeC.^ 



with thirty-four plates, of its Transactions; two hundred and 

 eighty-four pages, with ten plates, of Memoirs; and five hundred 

 and seven pages, with thirty-one plates, of the Entomological 

 News. 



One hundred and forty-three pages, with twenty plates, have 

 been issued of the Manual of Conchology. 



The total number of pages is two thousand and fifty-five, and 

 131 plates, being an increase of 130 pages and twenty-two plates 

 over last year. 



One hundred and two members and one correspondent have been 

 elected. Fourteen deaths have been announced. Resignations have 

 been received from Warren M. Foote, Theodore Brooks, and Walter 

 Sonneberg. Five were dropped from the roll. 



The increase in new members is due to the activities of the Com- 

 mittee on Membership and Endow^nent. The financial results of 

 the campaign of this committee will, no doubt, be referred to in the 

 Treasurer's report. 



The special appointments of the Council are as follows: The 

 Standing Committees, the Councillor, the Curator of the William 

 S. Vaux Collections, and the Custodian of the Lea Collections. In 

 addition, there were appointed a Committee of Council on By-Laws, 

 and a Committee on Correspondents, 



The Hayden ]\Iemorial Geological Award, a gold medal, for the 

 best work of a geologist or a paleontologist, Avas conferred on Pro- 

 fessor William Morris Davis, of Harvard University. 



A meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpet- 

 ologists was held in the lecture hall in March. 



The Ludwick Institute Free Lecture Courses were given at the 

 Academy on Mondays and Fridays, January 8 to April 23, by 

 Witmer Stone, B. Franklin Royer, Henry Skinner, Spencer Trotter, 

 and Henry A. Pilsbry. Ten lectures on the natural history of 

 Philadelphia and vicinity, especially adapted to school children, 

 were given by Messrs. Stone, Moore, Pilsbry, and Skinner, of the 

 Academy staff. 



Edward J, Nolan, Recording Secretary. 



REPORT OF THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 



The volume of incoming correspondence, which is somewhat of 

 an index of scientific activity abroad, fell during the past year to a 

 point where it was barely one-third of the receipts of the years 

 immediately preceding the war. 



