470 . PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1890. 



The following annual reports were read and referred to the Pub- 

 lication Committee : — 



REPORT OF RECORDING SECRETARY. 



The average attendance at the meetings of the Academy during 

 the year ending Nov. 30 has been thirty, a marked improvement on 

 that of preceding years. The meeting of the Sections at stated 

 intervals continues to be productive of good results, as specialists are 

 in this way enabled to attend the meetings at which matters of inter- 

 est will be presented for their consideration. Verbal communica- 

 tions have been made by Messrs. Leidy, Heilprin, Brinton, Hous- 

 ton, Horn, Meehau, Woolman, Roth rock, Pilsbry, Allen, Dall, Wil- 

 son, McCook, Koenig, Ryder, Meyer, Rand, English, Calvert, 

 Sharp, Rex, Thomas, Wingate, Baker, Goldsmith, Morris, U. C. 

 Smith, Willcox, Sudduth, Lyman, SchaefFer, Martindale, Skinner, 

 Foote, Redfield and Bancroft. 



Ninty-six pages of the Proceedings for 1889 and three hundred 

 and thirty- six of the volume for 1890 have been issued, the former 

 illustrated by two and the latter by seven plates. The distribution 

 remains the same as last year. The publications of the Conchologi- 

 cal and Entomological Sections noted in my last report have been 

 issued regularly during the year. 



Forty-two papers have been presented for publication as fol- 

 lows :— H. A. Pilsbry 6, F. C. Baker 4, Angelo Heilprin 4, A. E. 

 Brown 2, J. E. Ives 2, J. B. Ellis and B. M. Everhart 2, Witmer 

 Stone 2, V. Sterki 1, Harrison Allen 1, W. D. Hartman I, D. S. 

 Jordan 1, Louis Woolman 1, T. D. Rand 1, H. F. Osborn 1, Chas. 

 R. Keyes 1, John Ford 1, Geo. A. Rex 1, Nathan Banks 1, T. Mee- 

 han 1, B. Sharp 1, Charles Morris 1, C. AVachsmuth and F. Springer 

 1, Jos. Leidy 1, John A. Ryder 1, Edw. Bancroft 1, H. C. Chapman 

 and A. P. Brubaker 1. Forty of these have been accepted for pub- 

 lication in the Proceedings, one for the Journal and one has been 

 recommended for publication in a medical journal to be selected by 

 the author. 



Twenty-eight members and eight correspondents have been elected. 

 The deaths of fifteen members and two correspondents -were an- 

 nounced and resignations of membership by Dr. Edw. Jackson and 

 Emily G. Hunt were accepted. 



