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A number of copies of the Journal have also been distributed 

 to authors of papers contributed to its pages, no charge being 

 made for them in such cases ; many authors have also availed 

 themselves of the privilege of obtaining 20 copies of their 

 papers, at the expense of the Publication Committee. Your 

 committee do not mention this, however, as matter of regret, 

 because they believe the circulation of the Journal and substan- 

 tial interest of the Section will be much advanced by a liberal 

 policy in this respect. 



Forty-seven copies of the Monograph of Terrestrial Mollusca 

 have been sold by subscription. 



Following the direction of the By-laws, every paper describ- 

 ing new species has been fully illustrated, so that the present 

 volume of the Journal will contain twenty-six lithographic plates, 

 crowded with figures, (of which there are over four hundred). 

 Of these plates 6 have been carefully colored by hand for the 

 Journal, and 11 for the Monograph. 



Your committee respectfully suggests to members the impor- 

 tance, by using the most strenuous personal influence, of 

 giving to the Journal a circulation which, while lightening the 

 responsibility of the Publication Committee, Avill at the same 

 time make the Section better known at home and abroad, and 

 more extensively interest naturalists in its welfare. In this 

 connection, we are sorry to inform the Section that, so far from 

 increasing, the circulation of the Journal has declined to the ex- 

 tent of 18 subscribers during the present year, and considerably 

 more than half of the subscriptions yet remain unpaid. As a very 

 large portion of the time of the acting Conservator was other- 

 wise unoccupied, the Publication Committee have availed them- 

 selves of his skill in drawing on stone, and have taken upon 

 themselves in return to pay three-fourths of the Conservator's 

 salary for the present year. 



Some time since, as many of the members are aware, Prof. 

 S. S. Haldeman, of Columbia, Pennsylvania, generously presen- 

 ted to the Section, for the benefit of its Conservators' Fund, 

 the entire remaining edition of his splendid work on the Lim- 

 noeides of North America. We have collated the Parts and 

 Plates of this work, and find that a slight expense will be ne- 

 cessary to render it available for sale. We propose shortly to 

 present an estimate of this cost, and await the direction of the 

 Section. Perhaps the expense might be paid out of the fund 

 which will be benefited by its sale. 

 Respectfully submitted by 



Geo. W. Tryon, Jr., 

 C. F. Parker, 



For Committee. 



