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The following annual reports were read and referred to the 

 Publication Committee: 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



The average attendance at the meetings during the year has in- 

 creased to 29. A quorum Avas lacking twice in midsummer, while 

 the largest attendance at any meeting was 143. The plan of 

 sending postal card notices of the meeting has been continued 

 with good results. When the communications have been records 

 of original observations they have been reported by the authors 

 and published in the Proceedings. Such, of course, are of most 

 importance, but in their absence it has been found desirable to 

 secure re'sumes of progress in various fields of science, reports of 

 collecting trips and explorations, remarks on current additions to 

 the museum and other matters not strictly original, but yet of 

 interest to those who find in them sufficient reason for attendance 

 at the meetings. 



Communications have been made by Messrs. J. C. Morris, Gold- 

 smith, Dixon, Keeley, Calvert, Schumo, Heilprin, Pilsbry, Dall, 

 Woolman, Boyer, Stone, G. Vaux, Jr., William S, Vaux, Jr., 

 Miller, C. Morris, Mercer, S. Brown, Holt, Sharp, Holmau, 

 Skinner, Morsell, A. E. Brown, Bryant, MacFarlane, Harshber- 

 ger, Cockerell, Rand, Lyman, IT. C. Smith, Schaeffer, Hamilton, 

 Rhoads, Palmer, Moore, H. C. Chapman, F. M. Chapman and 

 James. 



Five hundred and thirty-eight pages of the Proceedings, illus- 

 trated by eighteen plates, and the second number of the eleventh 

 volume of the Journal have been published, the latter consisting 

 of one hundred and thirty-eight pages and five plates. In addi- 

 tion forty-nine pages of the third number of the volume profusely 

 illustrated by text figures, a continuation of Mr. Clarence B. 

 Moore's papers on southern burial mounds, have been printed in 

 advance at the expense of the author. 



Forty-one papers have been presented for publication, as fol- 

 lows: H. A. Pilsbry 6, H. W. Fowler 4, Witmer Stone 4, William 

 J. Fox 3, Gerrit S. Miller 3, E. G. Vanatta 2, J. Percy Moore 

 2, Phihp P. Calvert 2, James Francis Abboit 2, C. W. Johnson 

 1, Thomas Meehan 1, Katherine J. Bush 1, T. D. A. Cockerell 1, 



