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The following annual reports were read and referred to the 

 Publication Committee : — 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



The Recording Secretary respectfully reports that during the 

 year ending November 30, 1885, fourteen members and one cor- 

 respondent have been elected. 



Resignations of membership have been received and accepted 



on the usual conditions, from J. H. Brinton, M. I)., W. S. Baker, 



Jos. C. Wright, R. B. Haines, Jr., and Jos. G. Richardson, M. D. 



The deaths of ten members and six correspondents have been 



announced, and duly recorded in the printed Proceedings. 



Thirty-four papers have been presented for publication, as 

 follows: Willis S. Blatchley, 3; Angelo Heilprin, 2; Herman 

 Strecker, 2 ; Alan F. Gentry, 2 ; S. H. Scudder, 2 ; Charles 

 Morris, 2 ; Carl H. Eigenmann and Morton W. Fordice, 2 ; S. E. 

 Meek and Robt. Newland, 2 ; Walter R. Furness, 1 ; F. Lamson 

 Scribner, 1 ; F. Warrington Eastlake, 1 ; Dr. Benj. Sharp, 1 ; 

 Leonard Stejneger, 1 ; II . C. Lewis, 1 ; W. D. Hartman. 1 ; W. B. 

 Scott, 1 ; W. N. Lockington, 1 ; Theo. D. Rand, 1 ; Morton W. 

 Fordice, 1 ; B. W. Evermann and M. W. Fordice, 1 ; B. AY. 

 Evermann and S. E. Meek, 1 ; Seth E. Meek and Edw. A. Hall, 1 ; 

 Edw. A. Hall and J. Z. A. McCaughan, 1; Charles Wachsmuth 

 ami F. Springer, 1 ; Ernst P. Bicknell and Fletcher B. Dressier, 1. 

 Twenty-nine of these have been printed in the Proceedings of 

 the Academy, two have been withdrawn by the authors, and the 

 remaining three have been reported on favorably and will form 

 part of the next volume of the Proceedings. 



Sixty -three pages of the volume for 1884, and three hundred 

 and eighty -four pages of that for the current year, have been 

 printed. The former are illustrated b}' two lithographic plates, 

 and the latter by three. 



Forty foreign societies have been added to the list of exchanges 

 during the year, increasing the number of copies of the Proceed- 

 ings sent abroad in exchange to 375. 



The average attendance at the meetings during the past twelve 

 months has been 25. Verbal communications have been made 

 by thirty-four members. The greater number of these have been 



