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The following annual reports were read and referred to the 

 Publication Committee : — 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



The Recording Secretary respectfully reports that during the 

 year ending November 80, 1884, thirty-two members and twenty- 

 two correspondents have been elected. 



Resignations of membership have been received and accepted, 

 on the usual conditions, from J. Henry Simes and John Shallcross. 



The deaths of eleven members. and six correspondents have 

 been announced. As these have been duly recorded in the Pro- 

 ceedings under the date of announcement, the names are not here 

 repeated. 



Thirty -three papers have been presented for publication, as 

 follows ; N. A. Randolph, 2 ; Miss S. G. Foulke, 2 ; David S. Jordan, 

 2 ; Angelo Heilprin, 2 ; Theo. Gill, 2 ; Seth E. Meek and Robert 

 Newland, 2 ; Seth E. Meek and David K. Goss, 2 ; Seth E. Meek, 

 1 ; Seth E. Meek and Martin L. Hoffman, 1 ; Andrew J. Parker, 

 1 ; Benjamin Sharp, 1 ; Joseph Swaim and Seth E. Meek, 1 ; Rev. 

 H. C. McCook, 1 ; Thomas Meehan, 1 ; Otto Meyer, 1 ; Rafael 

 Arango, 1 ; Eugene N. S. Ringueberg, 1 ; Jos. Willcox, 1 ; Edw. 

 Potts, 1 ; Henry J. Carter, 1 ; Frederick D. Chester, 1 ; D. G. 

 Brinton, 1 ; Henry F. Osborn, 1 ; Herman Strecker, 1 ; Asa Gray, 

 l,and F. Lamson Scribner, 1. 



These have all been printed in the Proceedings. 



One hundred and twenty-eight pages of the Proceedings for 

 1888, and two hundred and sixty-four pages of the volume for 

 1884, have been printed and distributed, the latter being illus- 

 trated by six plates. Eighty-five pages of the Journal have also 

 been published, completing the first part of the ninth volume. 

 These pages contain the conclusion of A. J. Garrett's paper on 

 Society Island Mollusca, illustrated by two lithographic plates, 

 containing one hundred and fifty-two figures, and a valuable paper 

 by Professor Heilprin, on the Tertiary Geology of the Eastern and 

 Southern United States, illustrated by a colored map. The Pub- 

 lication Committee has recently been compelled by lack of means 

 to decline a contribution to the Journal of a valuable paper, not- 

 withstanding the fact that a series of beautiful illustrative plates 

 were offered free of expense, except for printing. 



