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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec., 
The following reports were ordered to be printed : 
REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 
Twenty-eight meetings of the Academy were held since the begin- 
ning of last December with an average attendance of thirty. Verbal 
communications were made by Messrs. Woolman, Harshberger, 
Palmer, Davis, J. C. Morris, Hamilton, Chapman, Pilsbry, Keeley, 
Montgomery, Calvert, A. E. Brown, Strong, Taylor, Kennedy, Hopper, 
Dixon, Sharp, Conklin, DuBois, Philips, Fowler, Strong, and Stone. 
Without attempting to estimate the comparative importance of these, 
it may be noted that the remarks of Messrs. Chapman and Brown, made 
at the meeting of November 3, on the fine collection of anthropoids 
presented by Dr. Thomas Biddle, attracted the largest assembly of 
the year. 
Fifty-five papers have been presented for publication, as follows: 
Henry W. Fowler, 7, Henry A. Pilsbry, 5; John W. Harshberger, 4; 
James A. G. Rehn, 4; T. D. A. Cockerell, 3; Howard Crawley, 3; Ralph 
V. Chamberlain, 2; Thomas L. Casey, 2; Arthur Erwin Brown, 2; 
Clarence B. Moore, 2; Thomas H. Montgomery, Jr., 2; J. Percy Moore, 
2; Adele M. Fielde, 2; T. Chalkley Palmer, 1; Witrner Stone, 1; Wit- 
mer Stone and J. A. G. Rehn, 1; William Morton Wheeler, 1; Henry 
Skinner, 1 ; Edw. B. Meigs, 1 ; Frederick W. True, 1 ; Nathan Banks, 1 ; 
Persifor Frazer, 1; Carl PI. Eigenmann and C. H. Kennedy, 1; E. G. 
Conklin, 1 ; Dana B. Costeel, 1 ; J. A. G. Rehn and T. D. A. Cockerell, 1 , 
and Et G. Vanatta, 1. 
Three of these (one as yet presented only by title) belong to the 
Journal. Two of those intended for publication in the Proceedings 
have been withdrawn, three have been returned to the authors, one 
was transferred to the Entomological Section and one has been held 
for the next volume. The others will constitute the volume for the 
current year. 
Nine hundred and twelve pages of the Proceedings for 1903, illus- 
trated by 44 plates, 340 pages and 15 plates of the Entomological News , 
472 pages and 8 plates of the Transactions of the American Entomo- 
logical Society (Entomological Section of the Academy) and 322 pages 
accompanied by 02 plates of the Manual of Conchology, published bv 
