REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 
The Recording Secretary is again indebted to Dr. J. Percy Moore 
for acting in that office, and to Dr. Philip P. Calvert,who performed 
the duties of Recorder of the Council, at the meetings during the 
past year. The statistics of this report have been again prepared by 
the Assistant Librarian, William J. Fox. 
Meetings have been held December 17, 1918; January 21, Febru¬ 
ary 18, March 18, April 15, and November 18, 1919. Communica¬ 
tions were made by Messrs. Henry A. Pilsbry, Edgar Fahs Smith, 
J. W. Harshberger, and Witmer Stone. 
Papers for publication have been presented by David Starr Jordan, 
John W. Harshberger and Vincent G. Burns, Henrj” W. Fowler, 
James A. G. Rehn, Julia W. Gardner and T. H. Aldrich David Starr 
Jordan and Masamitsu Oshima, Ezra T. Cresson, Jr., and S. Tillman 
Berry. 
Three-hundred and fifty-nine pages and fourteen plates of the 
Proceedings were issued. 
The Entomological Section (American Entomological Society) has 
published three-hundred and ninety-six pages and thirty-five plates 
of its Transactions, seventy-eight pages and twenty plates of 
