118 ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. [Jan. 12, 
The Annual Reports of the officers and sections were presented. 
SECRETARY'S REPORT. 
The report of the Secretary, Pror. A. L. AREY, is summarized as 
follows : 
Eighteen meetings were held during the year, the average atten- 
dance being fifty persons.. All the meetings have been held in the Uni- 
versity of Rochester. The suspension during the. winter of street cars 
was the cause of the small attendance at several meetings. 
Twenty-three active members have been elected, and six members 
have been made fellows. 
During the year eighteen papers have been read, divided among 
the following subjects: Archaeology, Astronomy, Physics, Engineer- 
ing, Geography, Mineralogy, Physiology, one each; Biology, Botany, 
Geology, Zoology, two each; Meteorology, three. 
The Council has held its regular meetings. 
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY'S REPORT. 
Mr. GEorGE W. RAFTER, the Corresponding Secretary, transmitted 
a report, in abstract, as follows: 
A number of Honorary and Corresponding Members were elected 
at the meeting of May 12, 1890, and each person so elected notified by 
formal letter. With one exception all have signified acceptance, and 
generally in terms exceedingly complimentary to the Academy. 
Correspondence has also been held with some of the Honorary 
and Corresponding Members in reference to the presentation of papers 
during the year 18g1, and it is expected that such will soon be received. 
The initial publication of the society has been sent to all Honorary 
and Corresponding Members and to one hundred and thirty societies, 
journals, institutions and government bureaus in the United States and 
the Dominion of Canada. 
Two hundred and ninety-three copies of the publication have also 
been forwarded to the Bureau of International Exchanges of the 
Smithsonian Institution for distribution in foreign countries. Each 
copy, both to home societies and to foreign, is accompanied by a 
circular letter asking that the receipient of the same exchange 
publications with the Academy. 
Acknowledgements of receipt have been received from nearly one 
hundred of the addresses in the United States and Canada; and 
exchange publications have also come to hand from a considerable 
number. Others to whom the Academy publication was forwarded 
