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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



February 24. 

 The President, Dr. Ruschenberger, in the chair. 

 Seventeen members present. 



The death of Col. Jas. Greer was announced. 



There not being a sufficient number of members present for an 

 election, the meeting adjourned until March 3d, when the follow- 

 ing were elected members : John B. Pease, Gen. Isaac J. Wistar, 

 Gen. Wm. Tilley, Wm. M. Bowron, John T. Sharpless, M.D., 

 Samuel J. Reeve, and John F. Weightman, M.D. 



The following standing committees were elected for 1874 : 



Anthropology. Radiata. 



J. Aitken Meigs, Geo. H. Horn, 



Henry S. Schell, J. G. Hunt, 



J. F. Richardson, R. S. Kenderdine, 



E. Goldsmith. Samuel B. Howell. 



Comparative Anatomy. 

 Harrison Allen, 

 J. McQuillan, 

 Jos. Leidy, 

 Henry C. Chapman. 



Ornithology. 



Bernard A. Hoopes, 

 Edwin Sheppard, 

 Theo. L. Harrison, 

 Jas. A. Ogden, 

 John Krider. 



Articulata. 



Geo. H. Horn, 

 R. S. Kenderdine, 

 T. Hale Streets, 

 John L. LeConte. 



Stratigraphic Geology. 

 Jos. P. Lesle^'^, 

 P. Y. Hay den, 

 Franklin Piatt. 



Vertebrate Paleontology. 

 Jos. Leidy, 

 Edw. D. Cope, 

 Harrison Allen. 



Mineralogy. 



Wm. S. Yaux, 

 E. Goldsmith, 

 Jos. Wilcox, 

 C. S. Benient, 

 Persifor Frazer, Jr. 



