264 [January, 



The Corresponding Secretary read bis report for Dec. 1854, and Jan., 

 1855, which was adopted. 



The Society then proceeded to an election for Standing Committees 

 for 1855, with the following result : 



Ethnology, John S. Phillips, B. H. Coates, J. Aitken Meigs ; Com- 

 parative Anatomy and General Zoology, Joseph Leidy, Edward Hal- 

 lowell, Jno. H. Brinton ; Mammalogy, John Le Conte, James C. Fisher, 

 Jno. L. Le Conte; Ornithology, John Cassin, Edward Harris, Geo. A. 

 McCall; Herpe'ology and Ichthyology, Edward Hallowell, John Cassin, 

 Gavin Watson ; Conchology, T. A. Conrad, T. B. Wilson, Chas. E. 

 Smith; Entomology and Crustacea, Wm. S. Zantzinger, B. Bridges, 

 John A. Guex ; Botany, B. Bridges, Wm. S. Zantzinger, Elias Durand ; 

 Geology, Isaac Lea, Chas. E. Smith, Jno. L. LeConte ; Mineralogy, 

 Wm. S. Vaux, S. Ashmead, F. A. Genth ; Palaeontology, Thomas B. 

 Wilson, Joseph Leidy, Aubrey H. Smith ; Physics, James C. Fisher, 

 B. H. Rand, Fairman Bogers ; Library, B. Pearsall, S. Weir Mitchell, 

 H. C. Hanson; Com. on Proceedings, Wm. S. Zantzinger, Joseph 

 Leidy, Geo. A. McCall. 



ELECTION. 



Dr. William Hunt, of Philadelphia, was elected a Member of the 

 Academy. 



February Qth. 



Vice-President Bridges in the Chair. 



The following paper, intended for publication in the Journal, was pre- 

 sented : " Notice of Fossils from the Carboniferous Series of the Western 

 States, belonging to the genera Spirifer, Bellerophon, Pleurotomaria, 

 Macrocheilus, Natica and Loxomena, with descriptions of eight new 

 characteristic species : by Joseph G. Norwood and Henry Pratten, of 

 the Illinois Geological Survey. " Referred to Dr. Leidy, Mr. Isaac Lea, 

 and Dr. Wilson. 



February \2>th. 

 Vice-President Bridges in the Chair. 



A letter was read from Dr. Henry G. Dalton, dated Georgetown, De- 

 merara, British Guiana, Dec. 28th, 1854, transmitting a copy of his re- 

 cent work on that country. 



Also, a letter from the Zoological Society of London, dated 81st 

 October, 1854, acknowledging the receipt of the Journal and Proceed- 

 ings of the Academy. 



Mr. Conrad presented for publication in the Proceedings three papers 

 severally entitled " Descriptions of eighteen new Cretaceous and Ter- 

 tiary Fossils," " Descriptions of eight new species of Cretaceous Shells 

 from Texas, in the collection of Major Emory," and " Description of a 

 new species of Melania ;" which were referred to Mr. Cassin, Dr. Car- 

 son and Mr. Foulke. 



