218 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1893. 



May 2. 

 The President, General Isaac J. Wistar, in the chair. 

 Fifty persons present. 



A paper entitled " Observations on the Japanese Salamander, 

 Cryptobranchus maximus (Schlegel)" by Henry C. Chapman, M. D., 

 was presented for publication. 



May 9. 

 The President, General Isaac J. Wistar, in the chair. 

 Forty-seven persons present. 



Papers under the following titles were presented for publication : — 

 " Observations on Vallonia," by Dr. V. Sterki. 



" Some new and little-known Palaeozoic and Jurassic Fishes," by 

 Edw. D. Cope. 



The death of J. Gibbons Hunt, M. D. on the 29th ult., having 

 been announced at the last meeting the following minute submitted 

 by a committee appointed for the purpose was unanimously 

 adopted : — 



Resolved, That the members of this Academy have learned with 

 profound sorrow of the death of their late associate, Professor J. 

 Gibbons Hunt, M. D., who, as one of the founders of the Biologi- 

 cal and Microscopical Section of the Academy and the first Profes- 

 sor appointed by the Academy under its by-laws, as amended a few 

 years since, to the Chair of Histology and Microscopical Technol- 

 ogy, has rendered lasting services to the Society that are held in 

 grateful remembrance by his associates. 



That we also give expression to our sense of appreciation of the 

 late Professor Hunt as a pioneer teacher and master in the most 

 refined methods of modern microscopical research, for which, how- 

 ever, owing to his native modesty and reserve, he never received a 

 large share of popular recognition, though known throughout the 

 country to all specialists for the important improvements and dis- 

 coveries in technique, by means of which he had enlarged the possi- 

 bilities of a science but little cultivated amongst us when he began 

 his work upward of thirty years ago. That we vividly recall the 



