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RECORDING SECRETARY'S REPORT. 

 To the Officers \m> Members 01 rm: Academy: 



During the past year the following meetings have been held : Regu- 

 lar, 12; Adjourned, 8; Special, 3; Annual. 1: Trustees', 8. Total, 32. 



Average attendance for meetings of the Academy, 15. 



Average attendance for Trustees' Meetings, 9. 



Thirty-nine regular, and 18 corresponding members have been added 

 during the year. 



Three regular members have been transferred to the list" of life 

 members. 



Died during the year, Professor Sheldon. 



Thirteen scientific papers have been read during the year, and the 

 following topics of general interest discussed at the adjourned meetings 

 of the Academy: "Railroad Telegraphy; Electric Motors for Street 

 Cars; Aerial Navigation; Earthquakes; Fuel; Weather Prognostica- 

 tion." 



To sum up, there have been held during the year a greater number 

 of meetings, with a larger general attendance and a greater number of 

 scientific papers read, than for a number of years. 



Respectfully submitted, Jennie McCowen, M. I).. 



Secretary. 

 CURATOR'S REPORT.— Abstract. 

 To the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences: 



The past year has been one of unusual activity and of almost un- 

 precedented accessions to the collections, both in quantity and quality 

 — among which are: The J. D. Putnam entomological collections and 

 cabinets; the Alfred Sanders geological, mineralogical, and marine 

 specimens and corals; the C. E. Harrison geological and mineralogical 

 collection ; the Barris collection, comprising seventy species of rare and 

 beautiful specimens from the Paris basin, thirty species of ammonites, 

 fifty species of crinoids; collections of cretaceous fossils from Arkan- 

 sas, sent by W. A. Chapman ; clusters of Coal Valley calcite crystal, 

 from William Johnson; superb crinoids in the slabs from Marshalltown ; 

 two hundred species of Florida shells from C. T. Simpson ; six hundred 

 species of shells from H. A. Pilsbry; seven barrels and one box of 

 stone implements, pottery, and skulls taken from southern mounds by 

 Capt. W. P. Hall; sixty-two New England historical relics from G. F. 

 Daniels; pipes, cloth-covered copper axes, awls, pearl beads, obsidian, 

 mica, etc., obtained from mounds near Toolesboro, on the Mosier- 

 Mallory lands, by C. E. Harrison, H. C. Fulton, E. P. Lynch, and Dr. 

 C. H. Preston. [The names of twenty-six other contributors are given.] 

 There are fifty-one large cases of collections in archaeology, history, 

 geology, mineralogy, botany, zoology, Crustacea, entomology, ichthy- 

 ology, paleontology, ornithology, etc. 



Respectfully submitted, W. H. Pratt, Curator. 



