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departed friend was so signally characterized, and cannot with- 

 hold the tribute of our admiration from that devotion to duty 

 which found him, as his lamp of life was drawing to its last faint 

 glimmer, still at his post, iutent on the fulfilment of a professional 

 service, while his dying breath expressed his gratitude for the 

 privilege of having lived at a period when so much of truth and 

 improvement had been developed in the world, and that in his 

 day and generation he had been permitted to share in the many 

 and varied enjoyments which science and ingenuity had dif- 

 fused. 



Resolved, That a member of the Academy be appointed to pre- 

 pare a suitable memoir of our departed fellow member. 



Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing resolutions be communi- 

 cated to the family of the deceased, with the heartfelt condolence 

 of the Academy on this mournful occasion. 



The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and Prof. 

 Johnson appointed to prepare the memoir. 



Meeting for Business, November 24, 1846. 

 Vice President Wetherill in the Chair. 



The Monthly Report of the Corresponding Secretary was 

 read and adopted. 



The Committee on the following paper by Mr. Haldeman, 

 reported in favor of publication. 



On several Neio Genera and Species of Insects. 



By S. S. Haldeman. 



Whilst engaged in making dissections of the mouth of several 

 species of Copris for the purpose of learning their true generic 

 character, I was struck with the dissimilarity existing in the la- 

 brum. I consider the European Copris lunaris as the type of the 

 genus, because European naturalists have usually constructed 

 the genera, and the type should be a species whose habits^are 

 well known. To prevent confusion, the author who subdivide? 



