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 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- Declaration of Independence, Facsimile exhibited 171 81 A Note on the History of the Jefferson Draught Manu- 88 Fort William Henry, MS. of a Journal kept during the Siege of; Hays. 143 142, 162 Grote; Specializations of the Lepidopterous Wing, the Pieri-Nymphalidæ 17 88 MS. of a Journal kept during the Siege of Fort William Henry, August, 1757 143 Old Broadside, with a Reference to the Throne of Congress; Sachse 45 142 Peckham; The Genesis of Bitumens as related to Chemical Geology 108 84 Pericles and Apollonius of Tyre, Shakespeare's; Smyth 206 Pieri-Nymphalidæ, Specialization of the Lepidopterous Wing; Grote 17 312 Queensland Aborigines, Divisions of; Mathews 327 Richardson; Description of Four New Species of Rocinella, with a Synopsis of the Genus 8 .336, 338 ཚུ Sachse; An Old Broadside, with a Reference to the Throne of Congress . 45 73 206 Siege of Fort William Henry, A Journal Kept during; Hays. 142 206 Specializations of the Lepidopterous Wing, the Pieri- Nymphalidae; Grote . 17 51 Throne of Congress, Old Broadside, with a Reference to; Sachse 45 Uinta Formation, Preliminary Note on the Selenodont Artiodactyls of; Scott 73 139 Vocabularies from South America, On Two Unclassified; Brinton 34 84 |