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and much curved, the muzzle gavial-like. The cervical vertebras 

 were very large, aucl of depressed form; the walls of the long 

 hones unusually thin, and pneumatic foramina large. He called 

 it Holojys pneumaticus. 



January 30. 

 Mr. Wm. S. Vatjx, Vice-President, in the chair. 

 Twenty members present. 

 Mr. Wm. Swaim was elected a member. 

 The following standing committees were elected for 18*72: 



Anthropology. 



J. Aitken Meigs, 

 F. V. Hay den, 

 Henry S. Schell. 



Comparative Anatomy. 



Harrison Allen, 

 J. H. McQuillan, 

 Jos. Leidy. 



Herpetology. 



Edw. D. Cope, 

 Harrison Allen, 

 S. B. Howell. 



Articulata. 



Geo. H. Horn, 

 R. S. Kenderdine, 

 T. Hale Streets. 



Botany. 



E. Durand, 



Thos. Meehan, 

 Rachel Bodley. 



Mammalogy. 



Harrison Allen, 

 Edw. D. Cope, 

 Henry C. Chapman. 



Ornithology. 



Bernard A. Hoopes, 

 Edwin Sheppard, 

 Theodore L. Harrison, 

 Jas. A. Ogden. 



Ichthyology. 



Edw. D. Cope, 

 Thaddeus Norris, 

 J. H. Redfield. 



Radiata. 



Geo. H. Horn, 



J. G. Hunt, 



R. S. Kenderdine. 



Vertebrate Palaeontology. 



Jos. Leidy, 

 Edw. D. Cope, 

 Harrison Allen. 



Invertebrate Palaeontology. Mineralogy. 



T. A. Conrad, Wm. S. Vaux, 



H. C. Wood, Jr., E. Goldsmith, 



Persifer Frazer, Jr. Jos. Wilcox, 



Clarence S. Bement, 

 Persifer Frazer, Jr. 



[April 16, 



