626 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [DeC, 



329 pages and 41 plates. This is 217 pages and 29 plates more than 

 the issue of the preceding year. The statistics of distribution remain 

 the same as for the last two or three years. 



Four members have been elected, the deaths of eleven members 

 and six correspondents have been announced, and Caroline A. Burgin, 

 Hannah Streeter and Morris Earle have resigned their memberships. 



The Hayden Medal for 1905 was presented to Dr. Walcott at the 

 meeting held January 7, advantage being taken of the occasion to 

 invite the members of the Academy and their friends to meet the dis- 

 tinguished recipient of the award. The address of presentation 

 was made by Dr. Persifor Frazer and responded to by Dr. Walcott. 

 The delay in presentation was due to the preparation of a new and 

 greatly improved design for the medal. Under the terms of the amend- 

 ed deed of trust providing for the making of the awards once in three 

 years, the Hayden Memorial Committee unanimously recommended 

 the grant for 1908 be made to Prof. John Mason Clarke, in recognition 

 of the value of liis brilliant work as State Geologist of New York. 



The Council has authorized the Publication Committee to prepare 

 an index to the entire series of the publications of the Academy, to 

 include the issues to the end of 1910, and to be published in connection 

 with the celebration of the centenary of the Academy in 1912. Such an 

 index has been long desired by students of natural history, who have 

 felt the need of a key to the wealth of the contributions to knowledge, 

 many of them of the first importance, issued under the auspices of the 

 Academy by many of the leading naturalists of America. Of the 83 

 volumes which will have been published by the Academy at the close 

 of 1910, the manuscript index to the first eight volumes of the octavo 

 Journal and the first 19 volumes of the Proceedings has been com- 

 pleted. It is divided into two sections: Authors and subject, and 

 genera and species. 



Dr. Henry Skinner was appointed a delegate to the International 

 Congress on Tuberculosis, held at Washington last September. 



Resolutions were adopted and duly forwarded endorsing the action 

 of the President of the United States in calling a conference to consider 

 plans for the conservation of the forestry, agricultural, mineral and 

 other natural resources of the United States, and in support of bills 

 for the purchase and preservation of the forest areas of the Southern 

 Appalachians and of the White Mountains as National Forest Reser- 

 vations. 



Edward J, Nolan, 



Recording Secretary. 



