526 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OP 



The Reports of the Recording Secretary and Curators were read, as 

 follows : 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY 



FOR 1861. 



During the year ending 30th November, 1861, there have been elected sis- 

 teen members and fifteen correspondents. 



One member bas resigned. 



Eight members have died, to wit: Mr. John H. Markland, Dr. Charles Huff- 

 nagle, Dr. Samuel Moore, Dr. Richard Clements, Mr. Francis Peters, Mr. George 

 M. Keim and Dr. George Spackman. 



The death of the following correspondents has been announced : Prof. F. 

 Tiedemann, of Heidelburg, and Dr. M. Grateloup, of Bordeaux. 



During the same period the following papers have been read and ordered to 

 be published in the Journal or Proceedings of the Academy: 



By Charles C Abbott, four, to wit: " Description of two new Species of 

 Pimelodus, from Kansas." " Observations on Cottus Copei." "Notes on the 

 Habits of Aphredoderus Sayanus." " On Cyprinus Corporalis, etc." 



By Harrison Allen, M. D., two, to wit : " Description of new Pteropine Bats 

 from Africa." "Description of a new Mexican Bat." 



By W. G. Binney, two, to wit : " Catalogue of land and fresh-water Univalve 

 Mollusks, etc." "Notes on the Terrestrial Mollusks of the Peninsular of Cali- 

 fornia." 



By A. D. Brown : " Description of two new Species of Helix." 



By S. B. Buckley, two, to wit : "Notes on Ants in Texas." "Notes on the 

 Bartram Oak." 



By John Cassin : " Descriptions of new Birds from Western Africa, in the 

 Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia," published in 

 the Journal. 



By E. D. Cope, four, to wit: "Catalogue of Colubridae in the Museum of 

 the Academy, etc., part 3." " Notes and descriptions of Anoles." " Con- 

 tributions to the Ophiology of Lower California, Mexico and Central America." 

 " On the Reptilia of Sombrero and Bermuda." 



By Elliott Coues, three, to wit: " Monograph of Tringeae of North America." 

 "Notes on the Ornithology of Labrador." " Monograph of the Genus ^Egio- 

 thus, etc." 



By Wm. H. Edwards: " Descriptions of certain Species of Diurnal Lepidop- 



tera." 



By D. G. Elliott : "Description of anew species of Pitta." 



By Wm. M. Gabb, six, to wit: " Description of some new Species of Tertiary 

 Fossils from Chiriqui." " Synopsis of American Cretaceous Brachiopoda." 

 ' List of the Mollusca inhabiting the neighborhood of Philadelphia." " Des- 

 criptions of new Species of Cretaceous Fossils from New Jersey, Alabama and 

 Mississippi. " Descriptions of new Species of American Tertiary Fossils, etc." 

 " Notes on Cretaceous Fossils, etc." 



By Wm. M. Gabb and George H. Horn : " Monograph of the Fossil Polyzoa 

 of the Secondary and Tertiary Formations of North America," published in the 

 Journal. 



By Theodore Gill, seventeen, to wit : " Description of a new Species of the 

 Genus Anableps." " On the Classification of the Eventognathi." " Appendix 

 to tbe Monograph of the Phylipni, etc." " Synopsis of the Subfamily of Clu- 

 peinse, etc." " Synopsis of the Subfamily of Percinae." " Synopsis Generum 

 Rhyptici et Affinium." " Revision of the Genera of Sciaenina? of North Ame- 



[Dec. 



