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NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 
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The following reports were ordered to be printed : 
REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 
Sixteen meetings have been held during the year, on the first and 
third Tuesdays from October to May inclusive, with an average attend- 
ance of thirty-six. Verbal communications were made by Messrs. 
A. E. Brown, Sharp, Keeley, Calvert, Chapman, Pilsbry, Fowler, 
Stone, Borden, Goodspeed, Phillips, Conklin, Nelson, Willcox, S. Brown, 
Moore, Wetherill, Miss Wardle and Miss Keller. 
Fifty-two papers were presented for publication, as follows: James 
A. G. Rehn, 7; Henry W. Fowler, 4; Henry A. Pilsbry, 4; J. Percy 
Moore, 4; Thomas H. Montgomery, Jr., 2; T. D. A. Cockerell, 2; Henry 
C. Chapman, 2; J. A. G. Rehn and Morgan Hebard, 1; Nathan Banks, 
1; N. M. Stevens, 1; Addison Gulick, 1; Harold Heath, 1; Thomas L. 
Casey, 1 ; James A. Nelson, 1 ; Harry C. Oberholzer, 1 ; A. E. Brown, 1 ; 
John H. Harshberger, 1; Benjamin Sharp and Id. W. Fowler, 1; M. F. 
Thompson, 1 ; William F. Allen, 1 ; David H. Tennant, 1 ; Sarah P. 
Monks, 1 ; Witmer Stone, 1; Witmer Stone and A. S. Bunnell, 1 ; H. A. 
Pilsbry and E. Vanatta, 1 ; H. A. Pilsbry and Y. Hirase, 1 ; R. W. Shu- 
feldt, 1 ; Mary H. Greenwalt, 1 ; Adele M. Fielde, 1 ; Adele M. Fielde 
and G. H. Parker, 1 ; Everett F. Phillips, 1 ; R. V. Chamberlin, 1 ; 
Charles W. Johnson, 1; Albert M. Reese, 1. 
One of these, Fowler’s Fishes of Sumatra, forms the concluding num- 
ber of Volume XII of the Journal, six were returned to the authors, two 
were transferred to the Entomological Section, one is held under 
consideration, four have been accepted for publication in the volume 
for 1905, and the others constitute the current volume of the Pro- 
ceedings. 
A paper by Edward G. Conklin, Ph.D., entitled The Organization 
and Cell-Lineage of the Asculian Egg, to form the first number of the 
Journal, Volume XIII, is going through the press, and will be ready 
for publication as soon as five of the plates in color, now being prepared 
in Germany, are received. 
Eight hundred and ninety-five pages of the Proceedings and 59 
plates, 70 pages and 22 plates of the Journal, 352 pages and 20 plates 
of the Entomological News, 299 pages and 20 plates of the Transactions 
of the American Entomological Society (Entomological Section of the 
