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tions of his interesting paper on the mounds of the Georgia coast 
constituting the number. 
The Conchological Section has continued the publication of the 
Manual af Conchology, 288 pages and 51 plates having been pub¬ 
lished since the last report, while the Entomological Section and the 
American Entomological Society have published 539 pages and 15 
plates in the same period, making a total of 1,455 pages and 96 
plates added within the year to scientific literature. 
Thirty-eight papers have been presented for publication as fol¬ 
lows : H. A. Pilsbry 5, H. A. Pilsbry and E. G. Yanatta 1, H. A. 
Pilsbry and Benjamin Sharp 1, S. N. Rhoads 5, S. N. Rhoads and 
Robert T. Young 1, Wm. J. Fox 2, T. D. A. Cockerell 2, T. D. A. 
Cockerell and W. J. Fox 1, Witmer Stone 2, Ida A. Keller 2, Per- 
sifor Frazer 2, Frank C. Baker 1, C. B. Moore 1, Marquis de Na- 
daillac 1, T. Chalkley Palmer 1, Mary A. Schively 1, Charles H. 
Johnson 1, Harold Heath 1, John Ford 1, Philip P. Calvert 1, E. 
Goldsmith 1, James E. Benedict 1, John Van Denburg 1, H. Von 
Ihering 1, Thomas Meehan 1. Of these 27 have been printed in 
the Proceedings, two in the Journal , while two others have been re¬ 
ported on favorably for the Proceedings. One paper has been re¬ 
turned to the author, one has been withdrawn by the author, and 
five are held under advisement. In addition to the above an elabo¬ 
rate memoir by the late Edw. D. Cope on the organic remains of 
the Port Kennedy Cave Deposit, probably the last work completed 
by the distinguished author, is in the hands of the Publication Com¬ 
mittee, and will be presented as soon as means for the required illus¬ 
trations can be secured. 
Eighteen members and two correspondents have been elected. 
The deaths of ten members and four correspondents have been re¬ 
corded, four members have been dropped from the roll for non-pay- 
menl of dues, and eleven members have resigned, as follows: Arthur 
A. Bliss, J. S. de Benneville, Jean Fraley Hallowell, Henry T. 
Coates, Thomas Earle White, M. L. Orum, William Thomson, John 
Struthers, Edgar W. Earle, Edward C. Kirk and B. W. Griffiths. 
In addition to the other societies heretofore reported as meeting 
in the Academy, the Philadelphia Branch of the Boston Mycologi- 
cal Club has been granted permission to hold its sessions in the 
Council room once a week at an hour not otherwise appropriated. 
The Committee on cheaper rates of postage on natural history 
material appointed on September 5, 1893, has informed the Acad- 
