Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 
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was designated a Benefactor, and John Cadwalader, Mrs. Samuel 
G. Dixon, Morgan Hebard, Effingham B. Morris, and Mrs. Beulah 
M. Rhoads, as Sustaining Members. 
I he Recording Secretary desires to express his appreciation of 
the cordial assistance and helpful suggestions given by officers and 
councilors of the Academy, during a year crowded with irksome 
routine details. It is a distinct pleasure to realize that the Council 
of the Academy has authorized the inauguration, in the near future, 
of a Central Office, which will relieve the Secretaries and other 
officers of the Academy of much purely clerical routine, which 
now consumes time of far greater value to the Academy. 
James A. G. Rehn, 
Recording Secretary. 
REPORT OF THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 
Correspondents deceased during the year are H. R. H. Albert I, 
Prince of Monaco, and Alfred Goldsborough Mayor. No cor¬ 
respondents were elected. 
Among important scientific activities in which the Academy 
was invited to participate were: die semicentennial of the founding 
of the museum of the Ethnological Society of Leipzig; the one 
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Royal 
Belgian Academy; the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Amer¬ 
ican Academy of Political and Social Science; the national com¬ 
mittee to found a Spencer F. Baird memorial, on which Dr. R. A. F. 
Pen rose, Jr., was appointed as the Academy’s representative; the 
Thirteenth International Geological Congress at Brussels, to which 
Dr. Penrose also went as the Academy’s delegate; the Twentieth 
International Congress of Americanists at Rio de Janeiro, at which 
the Academy was represented by Dr. William P. Wilson; a proposed 
memorial foundation at Brussels to Maurice Rahir, in the form of a 
prize to be awarded for distinguished geographical discovery; the 
seventieth birthday jubilee of Victor Goldschmidt; and the in¬ 
auguration of Marion Edwards Parks as President of Bryn Mawr 
College. In cases where the Academy was unable to appoint a 
delegate, congratulatory letters, or suitable acknowledgments, were 
sent. 
