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ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 
OF 
PHILADELPHIA. 
ANNUAL REPORTS. 
1895. 
REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 
The meetings of the Academy have been held during the year 
without any intermission, a quorum being always present even du¬ 
ring the midsummer months. The average attendance has been 
thirty-three. The verbal communications have been of interest 
and have frequently been followed by animated discussion. The 
speakers have been Messrs. Goldsmith, Rand, Woolmau, Ryder, 
Ives, Woodbury, Boyer, Holman, Rex, Morsell, Morris, Dixon, 
Leonard, Dalaud, Abbott, Allen, Pilsbrv, Parvin, Ball, Hopkins, 
Vaux, Calvert, Oberholtzer, Horn, McCook, Keely, Skinner, Foote, 
Miller, Lyman, Willcox, Cope, Mercer, Heilprin, Smock, Sommer- 
ville, Brinton, Schumo and Miss Walter. Several of the most 
important of these communications have been reported by their 
authors for publication in the Proceedings. 
Since the last report 608 pages of the Proceedings , illustrated by 
eighteen plates, have been issued, together with 114 pages and seven 
plates of the Journal, constituting Vol. IX, Part 4. The text of 
the memoir by the late Andrew J. Parker on the Anthropoid brain 
has been printed and will be issued as the third part of Vol. X as 
soon as the plates can be prepared. 
The Couchological Section has continued the publication of the 
Manual of Conchology , the sustained value of which is testified to by 
the uudimiuished subscription list. 585 pages, illustrated by 85 
