564 PBOCEEDIXG3 OF THE ACADEMY OF [DeC.^ 



The following reports were orde-ed to be printed : 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRET.AJIY. 



Fifteen meetings of tlie Academy were held during the past year, 

 with an average attendance of thirty-seven. Commmiications, many 

 of which were illustrated by lantern slides, were made by Messrs. 

 George. Jr.. and William S. Yaux. H. A. Pilsbn-. H. E. Wetherill. Henry 

 Leffman. Howard W. DuBois, E. G. Conklin. S. G. Dixon. A. E. Brown, 

 P. P. Calvert, Henry Skioner, J. W. Harshberger, Joseph Willcox, 

 Burnett Smith. Witmer Stone. F. L. Garrison and Benjamin Sharp. 



Forty papers have been presented for publication by the following 

 authors : Qarence B. Moore, 4: H. A. Filsbri-. 4: Henry W. Fowler, 3; 

 James A. G. Rehn. 3: Thomas H. Montgomery. 2: J. Percy Moore, 2; 

 Burnett Smith. 2; R. W. Shufeldt, 2: H. E. witherill, 1: H. A. Pilsbry 

 and James H. Ferris. 1: C. P. Gillette. 1: George, Jr.. and William S. 

 Yaux, 1 : James A. Xelson. 1 ; Theodore Gill. 1 : Harold Heath. 1 : Arthur 

 M. Edwards, 1; J. Chester Bradley, 1: Howard Crawley, 1: E. G. 

 Yanatta. 1 ; J. A. G. Rehn and M. Hebard. 1 : Helen Dean King. 1 : H. ■ 

 E. Enders. 1; E. G. ConMin, 1; Clayton F. Palmer. 1; W. H. Dall. 1; 

 and Witmer Stone, 1. Four of these have been accepted for pubhca- 

 tion in the Jousxal, twenty-nine for the Proceedings : six have been 

 rettimed to the authors, and one is stiU held imder advisement. 



One hundred and ninety pages of the Peoceedlngs for 1906. with 

 fourteen plates and two maps, and four himdred and sixteen pages 

 and thirty plates, constituting Part 3 of Yol. 58 and Parts 1 and 2 of 

 Yol. 59. have been published and distributed. The four papers by ^Ir. 

 Moore f«rm the third number of Yol. All! of the Joihbxae, one hun- 

 dred and forty-three beautifully illustrated pages, for which we are 

 indebted to the author who defraj's the entire cost of pubhcation. 



The Entomological Section has published four hundred and fift}-- 

 eight pages of the Extomologicajl Xews, with seventeen plates, and 

 two hundred and mnet\--seven pages, with four plates, of the Traxs- 

 Acnoxs OF THE AviERiCAX ExTOMOLOGicAL SociETT (Entomological 

 Section of the Academy). Of the Maxttal of Coxchologt two hun- 

 dred and twenty-six pages and thirty^even plates have been issued. 



Six members and four correspondents have been elected. The 

 deaths of eight members and three correspondents have been announced. 



