Annual Meeting.] 
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[May 7, 
Publications. 
The following memoir has been printed during the past year : 
Vol. iy, No. 7. The Flora of the Kurile Islands. By K. Mi- 
yabe. 
The Society has printed and distributed parts i and n and ten sig- 
natures of part in, of Vol. xxiv, of the Proceedings. This vol- 
ume will be a large one with several plates and many cuts, and 
closes with the present official year. It is now in type and will be 
printed and distributed this summer. Although our proceedings 
have not been issued as promptly as could be wished the delays 
have been beyond control. Dr. R. T. Jackson’s Memoir on the Phy- 
logenyof the Pelecypoda is being rapidly pushed and will appear in 
the summer. 
The first edition of Prof. Crosby’s “ Guide to Mineralogy” hav- 
ing been sold, a new addition with slight corrections has been 
printed. There is a constant demand for this book. 
The demand from institutions and from private individuals for 
all the publications of the society is on the increase. Several sets 
of the proceedings, necessarily incomplete since some of early vol- 
umes are out of print, have been sold. The call from different 
quarters for exchange of publications is about as large as last year. 
An incomplete set of our publications, complete as far as possible, 
has been sent to the University of Toronto, the library of which 
was destroyed b} 7 fire. 
Walker Prize. 
The Walker Prize Committee presented the following subjects 
for competition during the year. 
I. On the Adaptive Resemblances of Plants in Different Natu- 
ral Orders. 
II. On the Processes Involved in the Production of Soils. 
The announcement brought out a single essay on the second sub- 
ject, but no award was made. 
