798 PKOCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [DeC, 



Mr. Stewardson Browa was appointed the Academy's represen- 

 tative to the proposed International Conference on Plant Breeding 

 and Hybridization. 



The Council Room and Lecture Hall continue to be used by 

 several societies whose objects are in harmony with those of the 

 Academy. 



Edward J. Nolan, 



Recording Secretary. 



REPORT OF THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 



During the year the roll of Correspondents has been revised. 

 There have been stricken from the list of living the names of 

 twenty-six persons whose decease has been ascertained. Direct 

 responses to communications have been received from 132 Corre- 

 spondents, and the addresses of sixty -nine more have beeti verified 

 or corrected from other sources. There remain on the rolls the 

 names of eighty-one persons whom the postal authorities have 

 failed to find at the addresses indicated. A list of the last has been 

 posted on the bulletin-board with the request that the Corresponding 

 Secretary be advised by members having information A\hich may 

 assist in tracing any of those whose names appear. 



There have been announced the deaths of the following : Carh^s 

 Berg, Henri Filhol, Alpheus Hyatt, John Wesley Powell and 

 Rudolph Virchow. 



Mr, George A. Bouleuger, of the British Museum, has been 

 elected a Correspondent. 



It is desired to emphasize the importance of requiring a higli 

 standard of scientific productiveness as an invariable prerequisite 

 to election as Correspondent of the Academy. 



Responding to a circular letter of request seventy-six Correspon- 

 dents have contributed and others have promised to contribute, to a 

 collection of photographs and biographical sketches which is being 

 formed. It is hoped that the representation of living correspon- 

 dents will be completed during the ensuing year. 



Copies of the Annual Reports were sent to all Correspondents 

 whose addresses could be verified, and were acknowledged appre- 

 ciatively by many. 



