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NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 
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quite unexpected beauty, as art can at present secure. The Academy 
is indebted for this continuation of the Journal to the liberality and 
devotion to his chosen branch of science of Mr. Clarence B. Moore. 
As evidence that the building operations and movings have not 
curtailed the work of the Publication Committee, it may be noted 
that the issue of the various serials now sent out under the auspices 
of the Academy is 129 pages in excess of that of last year, which itself 
was unusually productive. The number of illustrative plates, however, 
is 38 less than reported in 1908. The record is as follows: Proceed- 
ings, 636 pages and 27 plates; Journal, 252 pages and 8 plates; 
Entomological News, 444 pages and 22 plates; Transactions of 
the American Entomological Society (The Entomological Section 
of the Academy), 486 pages and 12 plates; Manual of Conchology, 
250 pages and 26 plates, making a total of 2,068 pages and 95 plates. 
The index to the publications of the Academy has been completed 
up to and including the volume of the Proceedings for 1905. 
The short history of the Academy prepared as a contribution to 
the Founders’ Week Memorial Volume and read at the meeting of the 
Academy held April 6 has been published. It will be issued in a 
separate edition and distributed to members, correspondents and others 
interested, in the hope that it may elicit comment, criticism and per- 
haps correction, which will render of more permanent value the detailed 
history in course of preparation for the Centenary of the Academy 
in 1912. 
The accumulated stock of the Proceedings, Journal and mis- 
cellaneous publications, held for sale and exchange, has been removed 
from the upper story of the middle building to cases prepared for 
storage in the basement. This is the fourth time this material has 
been moved to provide for the requirements of other interests since 
the occupancy of the corner building in 1876. It has been well said 
that three movings are as bad as a fire, and it is earnestly to be hoped 
that the present resting place will lie permanent until the parts are 
distributed in fulfilment of their legitimate purpose as contributions 
to science. Incidentally an account of stock has been taken. 
Ten members and five correspondents have been elected. The 
deaths of fourteen members and six correspondents have been 
announced. Messrs. J. H. Austin and Henry Pemberton have resigned. 
The loss sustained by the Academy in the death of Henry Cadwalader 
Chapman, so intimately concerned for many years with the scientific 
and administrative interests of the society, requires more than passing 
mention, and the Recording Secretary has been charged with the 
