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PROCEEDINGS OP THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec., 
REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 
It is gratifying to be able to report that, notwithstanding the impor- 
tant and, it might be supposed, disturbing building operations of the 
past year, the routine work of the Academy has been but little inter- 
fered with. The October meetings, indeed, had to be omitted, because, 
while the old Library Hall was dismantled, the new Reading Room 
was not quite ready. The meetings of the Academy will hereafter 
be held here, except on occasions of extraordinary and therefore large 
attendance, when the Lecture Hall on the floor below will be avail- 
able. Fourteen meetings were, therefore, held during the Academic 
year, at which the average attendance was forty-four. Verbal com- 
munications, for the most part illustrated, were made by Messrs. 
F. Creighton Wellman, John W. Harshberger, F. Lynwood Garrison, 
Philip P. Calvert, Thomas PI. Montgomery, Jr., J. M. MacFarlane, 
Henry Skinner, Frank F. Iveeley, Arthur Erwin Brown, Edwin G. 
Conklin, Henry A. Pilsbry, Stewardson Brown, Gilbert Van Ingen, 
Edwin T. Wherry, Benjamin Smith Lyman, and the Secretary. 
Thirty-six papers have been received for publication from the 
following authors: Henry A. Pilsbry, 4; H. A. Pilsbry and James H. 
Ferriss, 2; H. A. Pilsbry and E. G. Vanatta, 1; Id. A. Pilsbry and 
C. Montague Clark, 1 ; H. A. Pilsbry and Y. Hirase, 1 ; H. A. Pilsbry 
and A. A. Plinkley, 1 ; R. V. Chamberlin, 3; Thos. IT Montgomery, Jr., 
2; Stewardson Brown, 2; J. P. Moore, 2; John W. Harshberger, 2; 
James A. G. Rehn and Morgan Hebard, 2; F. Creighton Wellman, 1 ; 
Charles S. Boyer, 1 ; G. E. Crampton, 1 ; Nathan Banks, 1 ; F. J. Keelev, 
1 ; F. W. Weymouth, 1; Robert T. Young, 1; A. E. Verrill and A. H. 
Verrill, 1; Burnett Smith, 1; Clarence B. Moore, 1; Ales Hrdlicka, 1; 
Thomas Barbour, 1; Henry W. Fowler, 1. Twenty-nine of these 
have appeared as portions of the sixty-first volume of the Proceedings ; 
four have been returned to the authors, and action has been deferred 
on one. The two papei-s by Messrs. Moore and Hrdlicka form the 
first part of the fourteenth volume of the quarto Journal. The 
number is beautifully illustrated by text figures and eight plates of 
Indian pottery. The latter are superb specimens of color printing 
and present as faithful a representation of the objects, themselves of 
