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Annual Reports of Academy of 
Secretaries 
REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY 
During the past year seven meetings of the Academy have been 
held, six being stated meetings and one an adjourned session to 
elect members. The dates of the meetings were December 20, 
1921; January 17, February 21, March 21, April 18, which meeting 
adjourned to reassemble at the call of the President, the adjourned 
session on June 20, and November 21, 1922. The average attend¬ 
ance at the meetings was twenty-two members and twenty-four 
visitors. Communications were made by Dr. Edwin G. Conklin, 
Dr. C. Montague Cooke, Henry W. Fowler, Samuel G. Gordon and 
Wharton Huber. 
During the past year thirteen members have died and four have 
resigned. The losses by death included: Charles Morris, Chairman 
of the Committee on Accounts of the Academy and a Councilor 
since 1884, as well as having served at one time as a member of the 
Committee on Finance, and for many years on the Committee on 
Instruction; George Spencer Morris, a Curator of the Academy, 
long a member of the Committee on Instruction, and Councilor for 
a number of years. 
The following were elected members: 
Dr. Francis Heed Adler, Miss Alice O. Albertson, Dr. Francis O. 
Allen, Jr., Dr. Joseph L. T. Appleton, Jr. 
Joshua L. Baily, Jr., John Bancroft, Samuel H. Barker, John 
Hampton Barnes, Leonard T. Beale, Charles Biddle, Commander 
Clement Biddle, Malcolm H. Bissell, Dr. Theodore W. Bouchelle, 
Stanley Bright, Joseph H. Bromley, Carolus M. Bromall, William 
Findlay Brown, Oreille H. Bullitt, Miss Martha Bunting. 
Miss Sophia Cadwalader, Miss M. H. Cadwalader, Daniel H. 
Carstairs, John P .Carter, Mrs. Samuel Chew, Clarence M. Clark, 
Miss M. E. Converse, Henry B. Coxe, Robert M. Coyle, Theodore 
W. Cramp, James H. R. Cromwell, Samuel M. Curwen. 
Charles Day, William D. Disston, Miss Mary A. Dobbins, 
Col. Franklin D’Olier, Mrs. Franklin D’Olier, Mrs. William Dreer, 
Mrs. G. W. C. Drexel, Henry S. Drinker, Jr., I re nee du Pont. 
