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them. It is well known that he was in the habit of describing things which he 

 never saw, and in his eagerness to claim a priority in discovery, to describe the 

 same object two or three times over under different names. 



It is to be hoped that the reading of these few pages will turn the attention of 

 naturalists in the Southern and Western States to the investigation of the few 

 species pointed out as forgotten or lost, and that we will not remain long with- 

 out knowing whether they have a real existence. 



The Committee on Mr. Conrad's " Synopsis of the Genera Paraph ol as 

 and Penicilla " reported in favor of publication in the Journal. 



A report was read from a Committee appointed at the meeting of 3d 

 inst., to inquire into the expediency of having an Address delivered be- 

 fore the Society at its Anniversary on the 21st of March next, and to 

 nominate a suitable person to prepare such an Address, recommending 

 the same, and nominating Win. Parker Foulke, Esq. 



The Report was adopted and the nomination confirmed. 



A Report was also read and adopted from a Committee appointed at 

 a late meeting to enquire into the expediency of assembling the members 

 of the Academy at an Anniversary Dinner on the same day, (21st of 

 March,) and in favor of the same. 



A Resolution was also adopted, appointing a Committee of Arrange- 

 ments for the occasion. 



Committee, Dr. Ruschenberger, Mr. Cassin, Prof. Carson, Mr. H. C. 

 Hanson, and Mr. Wm. P. Foulke. 



ELECTION. 



Lieut. D. M. Couch, U. S. A. was elected a Correspondent. 

 The Society then elected the following list of Standing Committees 

 for 1854. 



Committees for 1854. 



Ethnology, John S. Phillips, B. H. Coates, M. D., J. Aitken Meigs, 

 M. D.j Comparative Anatomy and General Zoology, Joseph Leidy, 

 Edward Hallowell, John H. Brinton ; Mammalogy, John Le Conte, 

 James C. Fisher, Samuel W. Woodhouse ', Ornithology, John Cassin, 

 Edward Harris, George A.McCaU; Herpetology and Ichthyology , Edward 

 Hallowell, John Cassin, Gavin Watson ; Conchology, T. A. Conrad, 

 Thos. B.Wilson, W. S. W. Ruschenberger; Entomology and Crustacea, 

 S. S. Haldeman, Wm. S. Zantzinger, Robert Bridges ; Botany, Robert 

 Bridges, Wm. S. Zantzinger, Elias Durand ; Palaeontology, Thomas B. 

 Wilson, Joseph Leidy, Charles E. Smith ; Geology, Isaac Lea, Aubrey 

 H. Smith, J. P. Lesley ) Mineralogy, William S. Vaux, Samuel Ash- 

 mead, John C. Trautwine; Physics, James C. Fisher, B. Howard Rand, 

 Edmund Draper; Library, Robert Pearsall, Wm. P. Foulke, H. C. 

 Hanson ; Proceedings, Wm. S. Zantzinger, Joseph Leidy, W. S. W. 

 Ruschenberger. 



