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iiig eight new species of Eocene fossils, reported in favor of its publi- 

 cation in the Journal. 



The following resolution, offered by Dr. Bridges, was adopted : 



Resolved, That the resolution, passed June 29th, 184-7, allowing 

 the Publication Committee to supply subscribers to the Journal with 

 the Proceedings gratis, be rescinded. 



On motion of Air. Vaux, it was 



Resolved, That the Publication Committee be authorised to present 

 Vol. 1, New Series of the Journal, to the Royal Historical and Geo- 

 graphical Society of Rio Janeiro. 



ELECTION. 



Francis N. Euck, Esq., of Philadelphia, was elected a Member; and 

 the Chevalier Manoel Ferreira Lagos, of Rio Janeiro, was elected a 

 Correspondent of the Academy. 



February 5th. 

 Dr. Morton, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read : 



From the Secretary of the Linnean Society, of London, acknow- 

 ledging the receipt of Part 3, Vol. 1, New Series of the Journal. 



From the Principal Librarian of the British Museum, returning 

 acknowledgments for Nos. 9 and 10, Vol. 4, of the Proceedings. 



From the Corresponding Secretary of the National Institute at 

 Washington, acknowledging the receipt of Nos. 9, 10, and 11, Vol. 4, 

 of Proceedings. 



Dr. Morton, in confirmation of some remarks made on several pre- 

 vious occasions, on the characteristic conformation of the Egyptian 

 cranium, exhibited several skulls from his collection, taken from 

 tombs dating upwards of 3000 years before the Christian Era. These 

 skulls shovved a remarkable delicacy of structure of the whole 

 cranio-facial region ; the cranium being of an elongated oval form, 

 the facial angle averaging 78, and the internal capacity 80 cubic 

 inches; in the last respect corresponding to the modern Fellah of the 

 Nile, 



The expression of the bones of the face of the ancient Egyptian is 

 neither European nor Asiatic, but peculiar, S2d generis. The Arab- 

 Eo'vptian, or Fellah of the present day, is the Arab engrafted on the 

 Ancient Egyptian, and dates from the sixth century of our Era. All 

 the Coptic heads of the present period have some negro characters : 

 they are those of the population of the towns which are notoriously 

 licentious. The Fellahs, or rural population, are free from this 

 taint. 



