NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 
435 
1888 .] 
executed on behalf of the Academy, May, 1,1888, and the following 
resolution for the appointment of the required committee was 
adopted 
Resolved—That a committee not exceeding five, to be appointed 
under the deed of trust of Mrs. Emma W. Hayden, shall first be rec¬ 
ommended by the Council of the Academy and shall be selected 
from the members at large and their names submitted to a vote of 
the Academy annually, and if said vote of the Academy shall show 
their election, they shall act as such committee under said deed. 
The thanks of the Academy were ordered, November 20, to be 
conveyed to Mrs. Clara Jessup Bloomfield Moore for her liberal addi¬ 
tion of $5000.00 to the Jessup Fund endowed by her father, the late 
A. E. Jessup. By subsequent action of the Council the entire amount 
was ordered to be placed to the credit of that portion of the fund 
which is appropriated to the assistance of young naturalists. 
All of which is respectfully submitted. 
Edw. J. Nolan. 
Recording Secretary. 
REPORT OF CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 
The duties of the Corresponding Secretary during the past year 
have been neither important nor onerous. 
The correspondence has related mainly to the publications of the 
Academy, being either acknowledgments from corresponding socie¬ 
ties or the usual letters transmitting their publications. 
The acknowledgments number sixty by letter and forty-three by 
■card, divided as follows: 
By card, American societies 23, Foreign 20. 
By letter, American societies 15, Foreign 45. 
The letters of transmittal represent thirty-eight bodies, of which 
but one is American. These, with the latter exception, are very 
nearly all those continuing their sendings through the International 
Exchange Agency. 
During the past year the duties of the office were kindly perform¬ 
ed by the Curator-in-charge for five months in the interval of the 
Secretary’s absence abroad. 
An opportunity was afforded of seeing personally the officers 
in charge of the libraries of some of our corresponding societies, and 
