580 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [DeC, 



The following reports were ordered to be printed : 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



Sixteen meetings of the Academy were held during the past year, 

 with an average attendance of fifty-two. Communications, for the 

 most part illustrated with lantern views, were made by Henry Skinner, 

 George Vaux, Jr., William S. Ysmx, Jr., Stewardson Brown, Arthur 

 Erwin Brown, Witmer Stone, John W. Harshberger. William P. 

 Wilson, Edwin G. Conklin, Henry Leffman, Benjamin Sharp, George 

 Wood, Henry E. Wetherill, Harvey ^I. Watts, Mrs. Charles Schaeffer 

 and Miss Mary J. Holmes. But few of these were reported for publica- 

 tion in the Proceedings. 



Twenty-seven papers were presented for publication as follows: 

 Henry W. Fowler, 5; J. Percy Moore, 4; James A. G, Rehn, 3; James 

 A. G. Rehn and Morgan Hebard, 1; Henry A. Pilsbry, 2; Henry A. 

 Pilsbry and C. M. Cook, Jr., 1 ; Benjamin C. Tilghman, 1 ; E. A. Andrews, 

 1; Ralph V. Chamberlain, 1; N. M. Stevens and A. M. Boring, 1; 

 Burnett Smith, 1; Henry C. Oberholser, 1; J. F. McClendon, 1; R. J. 

 Lechmere Guppy, 1; N. E. Mclndoo, 1; W. S. Blatchley, 1; Nathan 

 Banks, 1. Three of these were returned to the authors, the others were 

 accepted for publication in the Proceedings, of which one number for 

 1905 and two for 1906 have been issued and distributed. 



Seven hundred and fifteen pages of the Proceedings have been pub- 

 lished, illustrated by fifteen plates. The Entomological Section has 

 published four hundred and four pages with fifteen plates of the 

 Entomological News and two hundred and forty-seven pages with 

 five plates of the Transactions of the American Entomological 

 Society (Entomological Section of the Academy). Two hundred and 

 seventy-two pages with thirty-four plates have been issued of the 

 Manual of Conchology. This makes a total of sixteen hundred 

 and thirty-eight pages and sixty-nine plates published during the year 

 under the auspices of the Academy. 



The President was appointed to represent the Academy at the cele- 

 bration by the American Philosophical Society of the two hundredth 

 anniversary of the birthda}- of Benjamin Franklin. 



A satisfactoiy design for the new Haydeii Memorial ]\Iedal has at 

 last been submitted and approved. The artist has been engaged on the 

 work since September, 1905. Whether the time that has elapsed 



