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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, on the first and 

 third Tuesdays from October to May inclusive, with an average attend- 

 ance of thirty-six. Verbal communications were made by ]\Iessrs. 

 A. E. Brown, Sharp, Keeley, Calvert, Chapman, Pilsbry, Fowler, 

 Stone, Borden, Goodspeed, Phillips, Conklin, Nelson, Willcox, S. Brown, 

 Moore, Wetherill, Miss Wardle and ]\Iiss Keller. 



Fifty-two papers were presented for publication, as follows : James 

 A. G. Rehn, 7; Henry W. Fowler, 4; Henry A. Pilsbry, 4; J. Percy 

 Moore, 4; Thomas H. Montgomery, Jr., 2; T. D. A. Cockerell, 2; Henry 

 C. Chapman, 2; J. A. G. Rehn and Morgan Hebard, 1; Nathan Banks, 

 1; N. M. Stevens, 1; Addison Guhck, 1; Harold Heath, 1; Thomas L. 

 Casey, 1 ; James A. Nelson, 1 ; Harry C. Oberholzer, 1 ; A. E. Brown, 1 ; 

 John H. Harshbergcr, 1 ; Benjamin Sharp and H. W. Fowler, 1 ; M. F. 

 Thompson, 1; William F. Allen, 1; David H. Tennant, 1; Sarah P. 

 Monks, 1 ; Witmer Stone, 1 ; Witmer Stone and A. S. Bunnell, 1 ; H. A, 

 Pilsbry and E. ^^anatta, 1 ; H. A. Pilsbry and Y. Hirase, 1 ; R. W. Shu- 

 feldt, 1; Mary H. Greenwalt, 1; Adele M. Fielde, 1; Adele M. Fielde 

 and G. H. Parker, 1 ; Everett F. Phillips, 1 ; R. V. Chamberlin, 1 ; 

 Charles W. Johnson, 1; Albert M. Reese, 1. 



One of these. Fowler's Fishes of Sumatra, forms the concluding num- 

 ber of Volume XII of the Journal, six were returned to the authors, two 

 were transferred to the Entomological Section, one is held under 

 consideration, four have been accepted for publication in the volume 

 for 1905, and the others constitute the current volume of the Pro- 

 ceedings. 



A paper by Edward G. Conklin, Ph.D., entitled The Organization 

 and Cell-Lineage of the Ascidian Egg, to form the first number of the 

 Journal, A'olume XIII, is going through the press, and will be ready 

 for publication as soon as five of the plates in color, now being preparetl 

 in Germany, are received. 



Eight hundred and ninety-five pages of the Proceedings and 59 

 plates, 70 pages and 22 plates of the Journal, 352 pages and 20 plates 

 of the Entomological Neivs, 299 pages and 20 plates of the Transactions 

 of the American Entomological Society (Entomological Section of the 



