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The following reports were ordered to be printed : 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



Since the last report of the Recording Secretary the meetings of 

 the Academy have been held, as provided by the By-Laws, on the first 

 and third Tuesdays of each month from December 3, 1907, to May 

 19, 1908, and from October 6 to November 17, 1908, with an average 

 attendance of forty-eight. Verbal communications, most of them 

 illustrated with lantern views, were made at these meetings by the 

 late Wilham S. Vaux, Jr., George Vaux, Jr., Stew^ardson Brown, 

 Casey A. Wood, Witmer Stone, John W. Harshberger, Philip P. Calvert, 

 Henry Skinner, Edwin G. Conklin, Henry W. Cattell, Harold Sellers 

 Coulton, Spencer Trotter, Miss Walter, Charles S. Boyer, Thomas S. 

 Stewart, Frank J. Keeley and Henry A. Pilsbry. 



Thirty-one papers have been presented for publication by the fol- 

 lowing authors: Henry A. Fowler, 4; Henry A. Pilsbry, 3; Henry A. 

 Pilsbry and Y. Hirase, 2; Witmer Stone, 2; Ralph V. Chamberlin, 2; 

 Harold Sellers Coulton, 2; E. P. Van Duzee, 1; Frank M. Surface, 1; 

 William S. Vaux, Jr., 1 ; Frederick W. True, 1 ; Chiyomatsu Ishikawas, 

 1; Arthur Erwin Brown, 1; Clarence B. Moore, 1; John Otterbein 

 Snyder, 1; J. Percy Moore, 1; James A. G. Rehn and Morgan Hebard, 

 1 ; Robert T. Young, 1 ; John W. Harshberger, 1 ; Philip P. Calvert, 1 ; 

 Thomas H. Montgomeiy, 1 ; F. Creighton Wellman and Walther Horn, 

 1; James A. G. Rehn, 1. Of these twenty-eight have been accepted 

 for publication in the Proceedings and are now mostly in type; 

 one was withdrawn by the author; one remains to be acted on, and 

 one, by Clarence B. Moore, forms the fourth and concluding number 

 of the thirteenth volume of the Journal. It is illustrated with fine 

 text figures and eight plates beautifully printed in colors. As usual 

 we are indebted to the author for the entire cost of publication. 



The issues of the various pubhcations of the Academy during the 

 year have amounted to 1939 pages and 133 plates, as follows: Pro- 

 ceedings for 1907, 159 pages and 9 plates; for 1908,444 pages and 25 

 plates; Journal, Vol. XIII, PI. 4, 132 pages and 8 plates; Entomo- 

 logical News, 500 pages and 25 plates; Transactions of the 

 American Entomological Society (Entomological Section of the 

 Academy), 375 pages and 25 plates; The Manual of Conchology 



