288 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



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Clarkson Taylor, Prof. Edward Parrish, Mr. Chas. Wilson Peale, 

 Mr. James II. Orne, Prof. John F. Frazer, Dr. Mifflin Wister, 

 Constant Guillou, Maj. Gen. G. G. Meade, U.S.A., and S. Emlen 

 Randolph. 



One correspondent, namely: Sir Roderick J. Murchison. 



Two resignations of membership have been accepted. 



The number of papers contributed and ordered to be printed in 

 the Proceedings of the Academy during the year, has been twenty- 

 seven, as follows : 



F. B. Meek 1 



E. D. Cope 3 



O. Finsch 1 



Thomas Meehan 2 



E. L. Berthond 1 



Geo. W. Tryon, Jr 7 



T. Hale Streets, M.D 1 



Thomas Bland and W. G. Binney . 1 



John G. Cooper 1 



Isaac Lea, LL.D 1 



T. A. Conrad 2 ! Theo. Gill, M.D 1 



Elliott Coues 2 I Wm. M. Gabb 3 



Five papers ordered to be published in medical journals, as 

 follows : 



Joseph Leidy, M.D 1 



James Tyson, M.D 1 



Albert Fricke, M.D 1 



Jos. G. Richardson, M.D. ... 2 



All of which is respectfully submitted, 



Samuel B. Howell, 



Recording Secretary. 



REPORT OF RECORDER OF BIOLOGICAL AND 

 MICROSCOPICAL SECTION. 



Read before the Section December 2d, 1872, and directed to be forwarded to 

 the Academy as the Report of the Section for the current year. 



The closing business } r ear of 1872 leaves our Biological and 

 Microscopical Section in a much more healthy and vigorous con- 

 dition than did its immediate predecessor. In spite of the gloomy 

 forebodings, which twelvemonths ago threatened our department 

 with complete and speedy extinction, we can this evening look 

 back to a better record, of real scientific work accomplished 

 during the past 3 r ear, than even warm friends of a Microscopical 

 society dared at one time to hope was within the bounds of possi- 

 bilit}-. When we remember that our eminently honorable and 

 useful parent Academy of the Natural Sciences, Avith her far larger 

 membership, and wider claims upon the scientific world for sup- 

 port, has on a few untoward occasions even found it difficult to 



