348 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



The Reports of the Recording Secretary, Librarian and Curators were 

 read, as follows : 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY FOR 1859. 



During the year ending 30th Nov., 1S59, there have been elected fifty-nine 

 members and twenty-nine correspondents. 



One member has resigned. 



One member has been expelled. 



Sis members have died, to wit : Dr. Charles F. Beck, Dr. Thomas D. Mutter, 

 Dr. Henry Bond, Mr. Henry Pepper, Augustus E. Jessup, Esq., and Dr. H. 

 C. Caldwell, U. S. Navy. 



The deaths of the following correspondents have been announced : Mr. W. 

 J. Broderip, Alexander Von Humboldt, Mr. Thos. Sutton Nuttall, Mr. Thomas 

 Horsfield. 



During the same period, the following Papers have been read before the 

 Academy, and ordered to be published : 



By Walter F. Atlee, M. D., "Observations on a probable cause of Haemor- 

 rhoids, " read before the Biological Department. 



By Spencer F. Baird, M. D., two, to wit: "Description of new Genera and 

 Species of North American Lizards, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion." " Notes on a Collection of Birds, made by John Xantus, Esq., at Cape 

 San Lucas, Lower California. 



By W. G. Binney, " Notes on American Land Shells, No. 5.' 



By John Cassiii, two to wit :" Catalogue of Birds, collected on rivers Camma 

 and Ogobai, Western Africa, by Mr. P. B. Duchaillu, in 1858, with notes and 

 descriptions of new Species," two papers. 



By E. D. Cope, two, to wit: " On the primary Divisions of the Salamandri- 

 dae, with a description of two new Species." " Notes and Descriptions of for- 

 eign Reptiles." , 



By Brackenridge Clemens, M. D., three, to Wit: "A Synopsis of the North 

 American Sphingidae." "Contributions to American Lepidopterology," two 

 papers. 



By William M. Gabb, two, to wit: "Catalogue of tbe invertebrate Fossils, 

 of the cretaceous formation of the United States." " Description of two new 

 Species of carboniferous Fossils." 



By Theodore Gill, ten, to wit: "On Datyloscopus and Leptoscopus, two 

 new Genera of the family Uranoscopidse." '-On the Genus CallionymUs of 

 Authors." "Decription of Hyporhampus, a new Genus of Fishes, allied to 

 Hemirhamphus Cuv." "Notes on a collection of Japanese Fishes, made by 

 Dr. J. Morrow." "Description of a third Genus of Hemirhamphira?." "De- 

 scription of a new Genus of Salarianisa, from the West Indies." " Description 

 of a new Species of Callinidea Ed." " Descriptions of new generic Types of 

 Cottoids, from the collection of the North Pacific Exploring Expedition, under 

 Com. John Rogers." " Description of a Type of Golioids, intermediate between 

 Dobina and Tridentigerina." " Description of a new North American Type of 

 Siluroids, allied to Calliophvsus." 



By Charles Girard, M. D., six, to wit: " Ichthyological Notices," five pa- 

 pers. "Herpetolngical Notices." 



By W. A. Hammond, M. D., "Observations on the colorless Blood Corpus- 

 cles," read before the Biological Department, 



By J. J. Hayes, M. D., "Observations upon the relations existing between 

 Food and the capabilities of men to resist low temperatures," read before the 

 Biological Department." 



By T. Charlton Henry, M. D., " Catalogue "of the Birds of New Mexico, as 

 compiled from Notes and Observations made while in that Territory, during a 

 residence of six years." 



By R. Kennicott, ' ' Notes on Coluber Calligaster Say, and Descriptions of 



[Dec. 



