NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 
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The following reports were read and referred to the Publication 
Committee:— 
REPORT OF RECORDING SECRETARY. 
The Recording Secretary respectfully reports that during the 
year ending November 30th, 1875, forty-two members and eleven 
correspondents have been elected. 
Four members have resigned. 
The following members have died: Rev. Henry S. Spackman, 
Dr. G. AY. Norris, Dr. A. A. Henderson, IT. S. N., Dr. R. Bannan, 
IJ. S. N., and AYilliam E. Whitman. The deaths of Sir Charles 
Lyell and John Edward Gray, correspondents, were also an¬ 
nounced. 
Twent 3 T -seven papers have been presented for publication as 
follows: Edw. D. Cope, five; R. Ridgway, three; Elliot Coues, 
three; Thos. G. Gentry, three; AY. G. Binney, two; H. R. Morri¬ 
son, two; T. A. Conrad, Dr. Jas. Lewis, E. L. Berthoud, Aug. R. 
Grote, J. A. Ogden, H. C. Chapman, R. E. C. Stearns, B. F. Lau- 
tenbach, and 0. A. L. Morch of Copenhagen, each one. Twenty- 
one of these were ordered to be published in the Proceedings, 
four in the Journal, one was withdrawn at the request of the 
author, and one remains yet to be reported upon. 
In addition to the above contributions to the Proceedings and 
Journal, the verbal communications made at the several meet¬ 
ings and published in the Proceedings without being formally 
referred to committees, have been unusually numerous and im¬ 
portant. Those by Dr. Leidy upon the results of his recent 
microscopical investigations, by Prof. Cope upon the Palaeonto¬ 
logy of the west and kindred subjects, and by Air. Thos. Aleehan 
upon vegetable physiology deserve special mention. Interesting 
verbal communications have also been made by Prof. Frazer, Dr. 
Chapman, Prof. B. AYaterhouse Hawkins, C. Newlin Peirce, Chas. 
A. Young, YA r m. M. Gabb, Geo. Koenig, and Jos. AYillcox. 
During the} T ear the concluding thirty pages of the Proceedings 
for 1874 and 427 pages of the current volume have been published, 
the latter being illustrated by twenty-four lithographic plates and 
ninet} T w’ood-cuts. 187 pages of the Journal have also been issued 
