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Stated Meeting, December 2, 1898.

Vice-President SELLERS in the Chair.

Present, 11 members.

Letters were read from J. B. Hatcher accepting membership, and from the London Library.

The list of donations to the Library was laid upon the table. The Librarian reported that the third and fourth volumes of the manuscript Logan papers, and one volume of Penn's letters and ancient documents, which had been loaned by order of the Society to the Historical Society of Pennsyl vania on April 23, 1879, had been returned.

The Treasurer read his annual report, and it was ordered that this and all other annual reports be spread upon the

minutes.

The annual reports of the Treasurer, the Curators and of the Standing Committees were read.

Mr. Dickson and Dr. Morris gave notice of certain proposed amendments to the Rules of Administration and Order. The Society was then adjourned by the presiding officer.

Stated Meeting, December 16, 1898.

Vice-President SELLERS in the Chair.

Present. 24 members.

A letter was read from Dr. Kendall, declining a renomination as Vice-President of the Society.

Dr. Frazer offered the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:

WHEREAS, Prof. Kendall has served the Society twenty-seven years, or from 1849 to 1876 (inclusive), as Secretary, and twenty one years, or from 1877 to date, as Vice-President;

Resolved, That the Society desires to express its high appreciation of Prof. Kendall's long and faithful services in its behalf.

Resolved, That the Society assures him of its continued confidence and affection, and wishes him the health and happiness which his unremitting labor for the good of others deserves.

A letter was also read from Mr. Robert Patterson, declining a renomination as a Councillor of the Society.

The Library Committee presented their annual report, which was accepted and ordered spread upon the minutes. The report of the Finance Committee was read and ordered to be spread upon the minutes.

Nominations for Officers and Council for the ensuing year were then made.

The Judges and Clerks for the next annual meeting were elected.

The Tellers reported that the following-named gentlemen had been elected members of the Society:

Prof. Edward P. Crowell, Amherst, Mass.

Prof. William Knight, St. Andrews, Scotland.

Paul Leicester Ford, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Francis Rawle, Philadelphia.

Prof. Edward N. Keiser, Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Prof. Ernest William Brown, Haverford, Pa.

George F. Baer, Reading, Pa.

Hon. John Hay, Washington, D. C.

Henry S. Pancoast, Philadelphia.

Charles M. Hall, Niagara Falls, N. Y.

The amendments to the Rules of Administration and Order offered by Mr. Dickson at the meeting held December 2 were then unanimously adopted.

The amendments to the same Rules offered by Dr. Morris at the same meeting were lost.

The Society was adjourned by the presiding officer.

INDEX TO VOLUME XXXVII.

Abbe; On the Altitude of the Aurora above the Earth's Surface.

Artiodactyls of the Uinta Formation, Selenodont; Scott.

Aurora above the Earth's Surface, Altitude of the; Abbe.

Production of; Day.

Asphalt resembling Gilsonite by the Distillation of a Mixture of Fish and Wood, The

Australian Tribes, Divisions of; Mathews

Bitumens, Genesis of as related to Chemical Geology; Peckham

Initiation Ceremonies of; Mathews

Brinton; The Linguistic Cartography of the Chaco Region

On Two Unclassified Vocabularies from South America.

Chaco Region, The Linguistic Cartography of; Brinton
Committees appointed, Standing.

Page.

4

73

171

151

54

108

178

321

178

51

Day; The Production of an Asphalt resembling Gilsonite, by the Distillation of a Mix-
ture of Fish and Wood.

Declaration of Independence, Facsimile exhibited

171

81

A Note on the History of the Jefferson Draught Manu-
script of: Hays

88

Fort William Henry, MS. of a Journal kept during the Siege of; Hays.
Fraley, Frederick; Portrait of, presented.

143

142, 162

Grote; Specializations of the Lepidopterous Wing, the Pieri-Nymphalidæ
Hays; A Note on the History of the Jefferson Manuscript Draught of the Declaration of
Independence. ..

17

88

MS. of a Journal kept during the Siege of Fort William Henry, August, 1757 143
Herpetological Notes; Van Denburgh

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Old Broadside, with a Reference to the Throne of Congress; Sachse
Peale; Collection of Indian Antiquities, Photographs of

45

142

Peckham; The Genesis of Bitumens as related to Chemical Geology
Pennsylvania, Notes on Kansan Drift in; Williams

108

84

Pericles and Apollonius of Tyre, Shakespeare's; Smyth

206

Pieri-Nymphalidæ, Specialization of the Lepidopterous Wing; Grote
Quaternion Group, On the; Miller.

17

312

Queensland Aborigines, Divisions of; Mathews

327

Richardson; Description of Four New Species of Rocinella, with a Synopsis of the Genus
Rocinella, Description of Four New Species, with a Synopsis of the Genus; Richardson.
Rules of Administration and Order adopted

8

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Sachse; An Old Broadside, with a Reference to the Throne of Congress .
Scott; Preliminary Note on the Selenodont Artiodactyls of the Uinta Formation
Shakespeare's Pericles and Apollonius of Tyre; Smyth

45

73

206

Siege of Fort William Henry, A Journal Kept during; Hays.
Smyth; Shakespeare's Pericles and Apollonius of Tyre. .

142

206

Specializations of the Lepidopterous Wing, the Pieri- Nymphalidae; Grote .
Standing Committees appointed

17

51

Throne of Congress, Old Broadside, with a Reference to; Sachse

45

Uinta Formation, Preliminary Note on the Selenodont Artiodactyls of; Scott
Van Denburgh; Herpetological Notes

73

139

Vocabularies from South America, On Two Unclassified; Brinton
Williams; Notes on the Kansan Drift in Pennsylvania. .

34

84

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