802 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [DeC, 



The following reports were ordered to be printed : 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



Twenty-eight meetings of the Academy were held since the begin- 

 ning of last December with an average attendance of thirty. Verbal 

 communications were made by Messrs. Woolman, Harshberger, 

 Palmer, Davis, J. C. Morris, Hamilton, Chapman, Pilsbry, Keeley, 

 Montgomery, Calvert, A. E. Brown, Strong, Taylor, Kennedy, Hopper, 

 Dixon, Sharp, Conklin, DuBois, Phihps, Fowler, Strong, and Stone. 

 Without attempting to estimate the comparative importance of these, 

 it may be noted that the remarks of Messrs. Chapman and Brown, made 

 at the meeting of November 3, on the fine collection of anthropoids 

 presented by Dr. Thomas Biddle, attracted the largest assembly of 

 the year. 



Fifty-five papers have been presented for publication, as follows: 

 Henry W. Fowler, 7, Henry A. Pilsbry, 5; John W. Harshberger, 4; 

 James A. G. Rehn, 4; T. D. A. Cockereil, 3; Howard Crawley, 3; Ralph 

 V. Chamberlain, 2; Thomas L. Casey, 2; Arthur Erwin Brown, 2; 

 Clarence B. Moore, 2; Thomas H. Montgomery, Jr., 2; J. Percy Moore, 

 2; Adele M. Fielde, 2; T. Chalkley Palmer, 1; Witmer Stone, 1; Wit- 

 mer Stone and J. A. G. Rehn, 1; WiUiam Morton Wheeler, 1; Henry 

 Skinner, 1 ; Edw. B. Meigs, 1 ; Frederick W. True, 1 ; Nathan Banks, 1 ; 

 Persifor Frazer, 1 ; Carl H. Eigenmann and C. H. Kennedy, 1 ; E. G. 

 Conklin, 1 ; Dana B. Costeel, 1 ; J. A. G. Rehn and T. D. A. Cockereil, 1 , 

 and E. G. Vanatta, 1. 



Three of these (one as yet presented only by title) l^elong to the 

 Journal. Two of those intended for publication in the Proceedings 

 have been withdrawn, three have been returned to the authors, one 

 was transferred to the Entomological Section and one has been held 

 for the next volume. The others will constitute the volume for the 

 current year. 



Nine hundred and twelve pages of the Proceedings for 1903, illus- 

 trated by 44 plates, 340 pages and 15 plates of the Entomological A^eivs, 

 472 pages and 8 plates of the Transactions of the American Entomo- 

 logical Society (Entomological Section of the Academy) and 322 pages 

 accompanied Iw 62 plates of the Manual of ConcJiology, pulDlished by 



