Annual Meeting.] 
20 
[May 7, 
The usual information in regard to meetings, membership, li- 
brary and publications is given below. 
During the month of September in the summer vacation, the Sec- 
retary in company with three fellow students carried on zoological 
studies at Grand Manan, New Brunswick. Some of the results 
of this study have been presented at meetings of the Society and 
elsewhere during the winter. 
Membership. 
The present resident membership in the Society is three hundred 
and forty-six. There are two hundred and forty-three corporate 
members. During the past year four associate members have died, 
six have resigned and one has been dropped for non-payment of 
fees. One corporate member has died and one has resigned. 
Herman Brimmer Inches, a life member, has died. Mr. N. C. 
Munson, a life member and patron, died in 1885. No mention of 
his death is made in previous annual reports of the death of mem- 
bers. 
A new list of members is about to be printed. 
Meetings. 
Fourteen general meetings of the Society have been held during 
the past year. The two meetings in October were omitted by vote 
of the Society. 
The average attendance during the past year has been forty-three 
persons, the smallest eighteen and the largest ninety-three. These 
figures show an increase of attendance over that of last year, when 
the smallest attendance was thirteen, the largest seventy-six and 
the average forty. The average attendance at the meetings for the 
five years preceding 1888 was twenty-seven. 
During the past year twenty -three papers were announced on the 
cards. Twenty persons read papers thus announced, all of whom 
with one exception are members of the Society. Six members 
who had never before presented papers to the Society are among 
those who read communications during the year. Four of these 
were given voluntarily and without^solicitation. 
The following is a list of papers read after announcement by 
cards : 
Horace P. Chandler. The Spinning Work of Spiders. March 19, 
1890. 
