PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
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[Dec., 
were recognized in a minute of appreciation and regret placed on the 
records and published in the Proceedings. 
The resignation of membership of C. H. Smyth, Jr., was accepted. 
A resolution was adopted providing for the participation of the 
Academy in a meeting to be held by the American Philosophical 
Society for the reception of portraits of the late Isaac Lea and Henry 
C. Lea. The President, Dr. Dixon, was requested to act as the Acad¬ 
emy’s representative on the occasion. 
The Secretary has devoted such tune as could be secured from routine 
work to the accumulation of material for the proposed detailed history 
of the Academy in course of preparation for the celebration of its 
Centenary in 1912. 
The index to the publications will be completed on the issue of the 
last number of the Proceedings for 1910. The alphabetical arrange¬ 
ment of the index to the genera and species, a rather trying piece of 
work, will be accomplished as promptly as possible, so that the supple¬ 
mentary volume may be issued in connection with the Centenary. 
Edward J. Nolan, 
Recording Secretary. 
REPORT OF THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 
During the fiscal year just closed the roll of correspondents was 
changed by five deaths and three elections. The deceased were 
Peter MacOwen, R. Bowdler Sharpe, Alexander Agassiz, Eduard 
Van Beneden and William H. Brewer. Those elected are Prof. Edward 
B. Poulton, Prof. Thomas Hunt Morgan, and Dr. L. O. Howard. 
The year was noteworthy for the many learned congresses and 
events of scientific interest in which the Academy was invited to 
participate. Among the most important of these were the following: 
The Third International Congress of Botany; the International 
Institute of Agriculture; the Eighth International Zoological Con¬ 
gress; the Semicentennial Anniversary of the Entomological Society 
of Russia; the International Hygiene Exhibition at Dresden in 1911; 
the Eleventh International Geological Congress; the International 
Agro-geological Conference; the Seventeenth International Congress 
of Americanists; the First International Congress of Entomology; 
the Solvay Institute of Sociology; the Tenth International Congress 
of Geography and the American Association of Museums. 
Most of these invitations were acknowledged by suitable letters 
