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The following Reports were ordered to be printed: 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



Sixteen meetings have been held during the year with an average 

 attendance of twenty- five. Communications were made by Benjamin 

 Sharp, Henry Leffmann, William M. Wheeler, Henry A. Pilsbiy, 

 John M. Macfarlane, John W. Harshberger, Thomas H. Montgomery, 

 Henry W. Fowler, Arthur Erwin Brown, Edward J. Nolan, Charles S. 

 Boyer, Thomas S. Stewart, Hugo Bilgram, Silas Shumo, Frank J. 

 Keeley, T. Chalkley Palmer, William B. Davis, William H. Van Sickel, 

 Henry Skinner, Chester A. Reeds, Edgar T. Wherry, F. Lynwood 

 Garrison, W r itmer Stone, Samuel N. Rhoads, and Miss N. H. Wardle. 

 But few of these were reported for publication. 



Thirty-three papers were presented for publication, as follows: 

 Henry W. Fowler, 6; Henry A. Pilsbry, 3; James A. G. Rehn and 

 Morgan Hebard, 3; James A. G. Rehn, 2; T. Chalkley Palmer, 2; 

 R. Southern, 1 ; Bryant Walker, 1 ; Harold Sellers Coulton, 1 ; H. A. 

 Pilsbry and J. H. Ferris, 1 ; H. A. Pilsbry and A. P. Brown, 1 ; C. S. 

 Sargent, 1; Margaret Harris Clark, 1; Henry W. Fowler and Richard 

 J. Phillips, 1 ; J. Perc} r Moore, 1 ; Edward J. Nolan, 1 ; Thomas Barbour, 

 1 ; Katherine J. Busch, 1 ; Francis W. Pennell, 1 ; Clarence B. Moore, 

 1; Edgar F. Smith, 1; T. D. A. Cockerell, 1, and Burnett Smith, 1. 



Thirty-one of these have been printed in the Proceedings, one has 

 been returned to the author, another (by Mr. Clarence B. Moore) 

 forms the second part of the fourteenth volume of the quarto Journal. 

 The number is beautifully illustrated and the Academy is again 

 indebted to Mr. Moore for the entire cost of publication. 



The following are the statistics of publication for the year: Pro- 

 ceedings, 720 pages and 43 plates; Journal, 110 pages and 20 plates; 

 Entomological News, 484 pages and 14 plates; Transactions of 

 the American Entomological Society (Entomological Section 

 of the Academy), 306 pages and 4 plates; Manual of Conchology, 

 94 pages and 16 plates, making a total of 1,714 pages and 97 plates. 



Seven members and three correspondents have been elected. The 

 deaths of sixteen members and five correspondents have been an- 

 nounced. The Academy sustained a severe loss in the death of Dr. 

 Arthur E. Brown, the senior Vice-President, whose services to the society 



