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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec., 
REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 
Six meetings were held during the year, with an average attend¬ 
ance of fifty-eight. Communications of interest, as recorded in 
the Proceedings, were made at the sessions held February 16, 
March 16, and April 20. 
Twenty-eight papers have been presented for publication, as follows: 
Henry W. Fowler, 4; Adele M. Fielde, 2; E. G. Vanatta, 2; H. A. 
Pilsbry and James H. Ferris, 2; T. Barbour and G. K. Noble, 1; 
William H. Dali, 1; N. E. Mclndoo, 1; H. Matsumoto, 1; James 
A. G. Rehn, 1; Albert P. Morse and Morgan Hebard, 1; James 
A. G. Rehn and Morgan Hebard, 1; William Churchill, 1; Stanislas 
Meunier, 1; Charles P. Alexander, 1; Edgar T. Wherry and S. G. 
Gordon, 1; John W. Harshberger, 1; S. Stillman Berry, 1; Clarence 
B. Moore, 1; Phineas W. Whiting, 1; Howard Crawley, 1; Burnett 
Smith, 1, and Nathan Banks, 1. 
Twenty-one of these have been printed, four are awaiting publica¬ 
tion, one appeared as a contribution to the Journal, and two were re¬ 
turned to the authors. 
Six hundred and sixteen pages of the Proceedings, illustrated 
by twenty-five plates, have been printed. The second part of the 
sixteenth volume of the Journal has also been issued. It consists 
of a paper on the evolution of color pattern in a genus of Lepidoptera, 
by Miss Annette Frances Braun, and a beautiful addition to Mr. 
Clarence B. Moore’s papers on his exploration of southern burial 
mounds, forming together three hundred and twenty-two pages and 
six plates. Miss Braun defrayed the cost of the two plates illus¬ 
trating her paper and we are again indebted to Mr. Moore for the 
entire cost of publishing his contribution. 
Of the Transactions of the American Entomological Society 
(Entomological Section of the Academy) five hundred and nine 
pages and twenty-four plates have appeared. The Section has also 
issued five hundred pages illustrated by twenty plates of the Ento¬ 
mological News. 
Eighty pages and ten plates have been added to the Manual of 
