OCT 27 190? 
1893.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 553 
The following annual reports were read and referred to the Pub¬ 
lication Committee:— 
REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 
The meetings of the Academy during the past twelve months have 
been held without intermission. The average attendance has been 
forty-four, fewer occasions of special interest having occurred than 
during the preceding year when the attendance averaged sixty-four. 
Verbal communications of more or less interest and importance were 
made at almost every meeting, among the speakers being Messrs. 
Cope, Chapman, Ryder, Wright, Sharpies, Goldsmith, Rand, Mc¬ 
Cook, Willcox, Lesley, Wistar, Woolman, Pilsbry, Heilprin, Roth- 
rock, Holman, Ives, Allen, Pierce, Dixon, Zuill, Holstein, Mac- 
Farlane, Ball, Sharp, Morris, Brinton, A. P. Brown, Morsell, 
Thomas, Ford, U. C. Smith, Calvert, Moeller, A. E. Brown and 
Wingate. 
Such of these communications as have been reported by their 
authors have been printed in the Proceedings. 
Since my last report 194 pages of the Proceedings for 1892 and 
376 for 1893, with eleven plates, have been issued. Seventy-two 
pages of an elaborately illustrated memoir on the Sand Mounds of 
Florida by Clarence B. Moore have also been printed as the begin¬ 
ning of the tenth volume of the Journal. These sheets will not be 
distributed until the completion of the number, which will be pub¬ 
lished in advance of the last part of the ninth volume in consequence 
of the character of the communications in the hands of the Publica¬ 
tion Committee. 
In addition to the matter issued at the direct expense of the 
Academy, the Conchological Section has continued the publication 
of the “ Manual of Conchology ” of which 580 pages and 91 plates 
have appeared since my last report. Numbers of the Entomological 
News and of the Transactions of the American Entomological Society 
embracing 731 pages and 91 plates have appeared under the auspices 
of the Entomological Section, thus making a total of 1,881 pages and 
193 plates, exclusive of the portions of the quarto Journal printed 
but not yet distributed. The statistics of distribution remain the 
same as last year. 
A new edition of the By-Laws and a new list of members and 
correspondents have also been published. 
