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The following reports were ordered to be printed : 
REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 
Since the last report of the Recording Secretary the meetings of 
the Academy have been held, as provided by the By-Laws, on the first 
and third Tuesdays of each month from December 3, 1907, to May 
19, 1908, and from October 6 to November 17, 1908, with an average 
attendance of forty-eight. Verbal communications, most of them 
illustrated with lantern views, were made at these meetings by the 
late William S. Vaux, Jr., George Vaux, Jr., Stewardson Brown, 
Casey A. Wood, Witmer Stone, John W. Harshberger, Philip P. Calvert, 
Henry Skinner, Edwin G. Conklin, Henry W. Cattell, Harold Sellers 
Coulton, Spencer Trotter, Miss Walter, Charles S. Boyer, Thomas S. 
Stewart, Frank J. Keeley and Henry A. Pilsbry. 
Thirty-one papers have been presented for publication by the fol- 
lowing authors: Henry A. Fowler, 4; Hemy A. Pilsbry, 3; Henry A. 
Pilsbiy and Y. Hirase, 2; Witmer Stone, 2; Ralph V. Chamberlin, 2; 
Harold Sellers Coulton, 2; E. P. Van Duzee, 1; Frank M. Surface, 1; 
William S. Vaux, Jr., 1; Frederick W. True, 1; Chiyomatsu Ishikawas, 
1; Arthur Erwin Brown, 1; Clarence B. Moore, 1; John Otterbein 
Snyder, 1; J. Percy Moore, 1; James A. G. Rehn and Morgan Hebard, 
1; Robert T. Young, 1; John W. Harshberger, 1; Philip P. Calvert, 1; 
Thomas H. Montgomery, 1 ; F. Creighton Wellman and Walther Horn, 
1; James A. G. Rehn, 1. Of these twenty-eight have been accepted 
for publication in the Proceedings and are now mostly in type; 
one was withdrawn by the author; one remains to be acted on, and 
one, by Clarence B. Moore, forms the fourth and concluding number 
of the thirteenth volume of the Journal. It is illustrated with fine 
text figures and eight plates beautifully printed in colors. As usual 
we are indebted to the author for the entire cost of publication. 
The issues of the various publications of the Academy during the 
year have amounted to 1939 pages and 133 plates, as follows: Pro- 
ceedings for 1907, 159 pages and 9 plates; for 1908,444 pages and 25 
plates; Journal, Vol. XIII, PI. 4, 132 pages and 8 plates; Entomo- 
logical News, 500 pages and 25 plates; Transactions of the 
American Entomological Society (Entomological Section of the 
Academy), 375 pages and 25 plates; The Manual of Conchology 
