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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec., 
The following reports were ordered to be printed : 
REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 
Sixteen meetings of the Academy were held during the past year, 
with an average attendance of fifty-two. Communications, for the 
most part illustrated with lantern views, were made by Henry Skinner, 
George Vaux, Jr., William S. Vaux, Jr., Stewardson Brown, Arthur 
Erwin Brown, Witmer Stone, John W. Harshberger, William P. 
Wilson, Edwin G. Conklin, Henry Leffman, Benjamin Sharp, George 
Wood, Henry E. Wetherill, Harvey M. Watts, Mrs. Charles Schaeffer 
and Miss Mary J. Holmes. But few of these were reported for publica- 
tion in the Proceedings. 
Twenty-seven papers were presented for publication as follows: 
Henry W. Fowler, 5; J. Percy Moore, 4; James A. G. Relm, 3; James 
A. G. Relm and Morgan Hebard, 1; Henry A. Pilsbry, 2; Henry A. 
Pilsbry and C. M. Cook, Jr., 1 ; Benjamin C. Tilghman, 1 ; E. A. Andrews, 
1 ; Ralph Y. Chamberlain, 1 ; N. M. Stevens and A. M. Boring, 1 ; 
Burnett Smith, 1; Henry C. Oberholser, 1; J. F. McClendon, 1; R. J. 
Lechmere Guppy, 1 ; N. E. Mclndoo, 1; W. S. Blatchley, 1; Nathan 
Banks, 1. Three of these were returned to the authors, the others were 
accepted for publication in the Proceedings, of which one number for 
1905 and two for 1906 have been issued and distributed. 
Seven hundred and fifteen pages of the Proceedings have been pub- 
lished, illustrated by fifteen plates. The Entomological Section has 
published four hundred and four pages with fifteen plates of the 
Entomological News and two hundred and forty-seven pages with 
five plates of the Transactions of the American Entomological 
Society (Entomological Section of the Academy). Two hundred and 
seventy-two pages with thirty-four plates have been issued of the 
Manual of Concpiology. This makes a total of sixteen hundred 
and thirty-eight pages and sixty-nine plates published during the year 
under the auspices of the Academy. 
The President was appointed to represent the Academy at the cele- 
bration by the American Philosophical Society of the two hundredth 
anniversary of the birthday of Benjamin Franklin. 
A satisfactory design for the new Hayden Memorial Medal has at 
last been submitted and approved. The artist has been engaged on the 
work since September, 1905. Whether the time that has elapsed 
