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[Annual Meeting. 
Report on the Secretary’s Department and the Library. 
By J. Walter Fewkes, Secretary. 
The Secretary has no important events to record in his depart- 
ment. A knowledge of the routine work derived from services as 
Assistant Secretary during a part of last year rendered it possible 
for the present incumbent to take up and continue the work of his 
predecessor with no marked change. During the summer vacation 
he visited some of the best known Zoological Gardens and Aquaria 
in France and England and was able to obtain information in re- 
gard to the organization of these institutions. Some observations 
then made were embodied in a paper on European Zoological Gar- 
dens and Aquaria read before the Society on November last. 
Membership. 
The membership of the Society has increased by ten members dur- 
ing the past year. Fourteen Associate and eight Corporate Mem- 
bers have been elected. There has been no Corresponding nor 
Honorary Member added to our roll. 
Four Associate and one Corporate Member have resigned. Three 
Corporate Members have died. The Society has lost by death Dr. 
Samuel Kneeland a former officer and a frequent contributor to our 
meetings. Mr. Chas. L. Flint, Mr. T. B. Wales, Mr. Charles Car- 
ruth and Mr. Elisha Atkins, Life Members of the Society, have died . 
The late Mr. Chas. L. Flint has shown his interest in the Society in 
many ways and was a member of the Council at the time of his 
death. 
Meetings. 
Fourteen general meetings of the Society have been held during 
the past year. Those in October were omitted. The average at- 
tendance has been forty ; the smallest thirteen, and the largest 
seventy-six. These figures are somewhat larger than last year and 
much larger than those for the years 1885-1888. Several of the 
meetings of the present year came on very cold or stormy even- 
ings. 
Thirty-six communications announced by card have been made to 
the Society. During the last year twenty-eight papers were an- 
nounced. Five papers have been read by title. Numerous unan- 
