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in the Study of Faunas by Dr. Henry A. Pilsbry; three on Studies 
in Local Plant Life by Mr. Stewardson Brown, and two on Ancient 
and Modern Man by Dr. Spencer Trotter. 
The afternoon course for students of the Girls’ High Schools of 
Philadelphia, inaugurated last year, was continued, beginning 
October 2, and was largely attended. 
Two lectures each were delivered by the following speakers: 
Dr. Henry A. Pilsbry, on Crustacea and Mollusks; Dr. J. Percy 
Moore, on Reptiles and Mammals; Mr. Witmer Stone, on Birds; 
Mr. Stewardson Brown on Plants; and one each by Dr. Philip P. 
Calvert and Dr. Henry Skinner, on Insects. 
It is manifest that the year has been one of unusual interest 
and activity, and there is no reason to doubt that the fine record 
commemorated last March will be continued during the next century, 
although conditions, which have already changed, may undergo 
further modification. A reasonable prediction as to what these 
modifications may be when the second centenary of the Academy 
will be celebrated by our successors in March, 2012, would be a matter 
of serious interest could it now be made. 
Edward J. Nolan, 
Recording Secretary. 
REPORT OF CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 
During the year the deaths of the following-named correspondents 
occurred: Sir Joseph D. Hooker, Professor John Duns, Professor 
Eduard Strasburger, and Professor Rudolph Hoernes. The death 
of the Reverend Stephen Bowers in 1907 and of Professor Adolph 
Bastian at an unascertained date were also announced. Elections 
of correspondents were as follows: Professor Viktor Goldschmidt, 
Dr. C’arlotta J. Maury, Professor John Casper Branner, and Dr. 
Charles Haskins Townsend. 
Invitations to participate in the following-named events were 
received: The annual meeting of the American Anthropological 
Association; the Xlllth International Congress of Americanists, 
at which the Academy was represented by Sir Thomas Lauder 
Brunton; the XIVth International Congress of Anthropology and 
Prehistoric Archeology; the two hundreth anniversary of the founding 
of the Academy of Sciences, Belles-Lettres, and Arts of Bordeaux; 
the XXIst annual convention of the German Dendrological Society; 
the Second International Congress of Entomology, to which Dr. 
