804 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [DeC, 



sidered essential that authors should examine, when possible, one proof 

 and frequently a revise. This rule, of course, sometimes involves delay 

 over which the Connnittee can have only indirect control, but results 

 in such good that there can be no question of its advisability. 



A resolution was adopted February 24 requesting the Pennsylvania 

 Topographic and Geologic Survey Commission to survey and prepare 

 maps at an early date of the quadrangles of Coatesville, Phoenixville, 

 Supplee, Oxford and New Holland. 



An invitation to meet in Philadelphia dm-ing the approaching 

 Christmas vacation has Ijeen accepted by the Society of American 

 Zoologists, the American Physiological Society, the Society of Plant 

 Morphologists and Physiologists, the Society of Bacteriologists and 

 the Eastern Branch of the American Society of Naturalists. 



A number of the smaller related societies continue to a\'ail them- 

 selves of permission to meet in the rooms of the Academy. 



The resignation of Dr. Thomas H. Montgomer}'. Jr., has created a 

 vacancy in the Committee on Instruction and Lectures, and the death 

 of Dr. Charles Schaeffer one in the Committee on Librar}-. 



Edward J. Nolan, 



Recording Secretanj. 



REPORT OF THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 



Continuing the inquiries begun last year concerning Correspondents 

 whom the postal authorities reported as removed from the recorded 

 addresses, the whereabouts of several have been ascertained during the 

 year. In many cases the reported decease of Corresjjondents has 

 been authenticated. The assistance of the many persons who furn- 

 ished biographical and other data in connection with this work is grate- 

 fully acknowledged, and especial mention should be made of the War 

 and Navy Departments. 



During the year the deaths have l^cen regretfully announced of 

 Augustus Radcliffe Grote, the American entomologist, who had resided 

 for many years in Germany; Carl Gegenbaiu-, the eminent compara- 

 tive anatomist, and Julius Victor Cams, the zoologist and bibliographer. 

 Correspondents of the Academy. 



On the other hand, the luster of our rolls has been increased b}' the 

 addition of the names of Theodor Bo^Tri. William Morton Wheeler, 

 Nestor Grehant, Eduard Strasburger and Hugo de \'ries. who have been 

 awarded the Academy's diploma in recognition of their distinguished 

 .services in the field of scientific research. 



