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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF ' 
[Dec., 
with thirty-four plates, of its Transactions; two hundred and 
eighty-four pages, with ten plates, of Memoirs; and five hundred 
and seven pages, with thirty-one plates, of the Entomological 
News. 
One hundred and forty-three pages, with twenty plates, have 
been issued of the Manual of Conchology. 
The total number of pages is two thousand and fifty-five, and 
131 plates, being an increase of 130 pages and twenty-two plates 
over last year. 
One hundred and two members and one correspondent have been 
elected. Fourteen deaths have been announced. Resignations have 
been received from Warren M. Foote, Theodore Brooks, and Walter 
Sonneberg. Five were dropped from the roll. 
The increase in new members is due to the activities of the Com¬ 
mittee on Membership and Endowment. The financial results of 
the campaign of this committee will, no doubt, be referred to in the 
Treasurer’s report. 
The special appointments of the Council are as follows: The 
Standing Committees, the Councillor, the Curator of the William 
S. Vaux Collections, and the Custodian of the Lea Collections. In 
addition, there were appointed a Committee of Council on By-Laws, 
apd a Committee on Correspondents. 
The Hayden Memorial Geological Award, a gold medal, for the 
best work of a geologist or a paleontologist, was conferred on Pro¬ 
fessor William Morris Davis, of Harvard University. 
A meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpet¬ 
ologists was held in the lecture hall in March. 
The Ludwick Institute Free Lecture Courses were given at the 
Academy on Mondays and Fridays, January 8 to April 23, by 
Witmer Stone, B. Franklin Royer, Henry Skinner, Spencer- Trotter, 
and Henry A. Pilsbry. Ten lectures on the natural history of 
Philadelphia and vicinity, especially adapted to school children, 
were given by Messrs. Stone, Moore, Pilsbry, and Skinner, of the 
Academy staff. 
Edward J. Nolan, Recording Secretary. 
REPORT OF THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 
The volume of incoming correspondence, which is somewhat of 
an index of scientific activity abroad, fell during the past year to a 
point where it was barely one-third of the receipts of the years 
immediately preceding the war. 
