130 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [March, 



The Chair announced, with appreciative remarks, the death this 

 morning of Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Jr., Ph.D. 



The report of the Council was received. 



The Publication Committee, acting in conjunction with the 

 Centenary Sub-committee on Printing and Publication, reported 

 that arrangements had been made for the publication of a Com- 

 memorative quarto volume (the fifteenth of the Journal), an index 

 to the entire series of the Proceedings and Journal to the end of 

 1910, and a detailed history of the Academy by the Recording 

 Secretary, of which the Short History published in connection with 

 the Philadelphia Founders' Week Celebration may be considered a 

 prodromus. 



Papers under the following titles had been presented for publica- 

 tion since the last meeting of the Academy: 



"Notes on a collection of fossils from Wilmington, North Carolina," 

 by Amos P. Brown and H. A. Pilsbry (February 29). 



"A synopsis of the genus Mastacembelus," by G. A. Boulenger 

 (March 1). 



"The vegetation of the banana holes of Florida," by John W. 

 Harshberger (March 1). 



"On the rate of growth of stony corals," by Thomas Wayland 

 Vaughan (March 12). 



"The faunal divisions of eastern North America in relation to 

 vegetation," by Spencer Trotter (March 12). 



"The relation of smell, taste, and the common chemical sense in 

 vertebrates," by George Howard Parker (March 18). 



"On the supposed Tertiary antarctic continent," by Sir William 

 Thiselton Dyer (March 18). " 



Under the head of "Verbal Communications," the Recording 

 Secretary gave some reminiscences of the people with whom he had 

 been associated in the Academy for the past fifty years, 2 his first 

 record of accessions to the librae being dated February 4, 1862. 



New nominations for membership were read. The election of 

 members was postponed until next month. 



The rough minutes having been read and approved, the meeting 

 adjourned until the next morning at 10 o'clock. 



Second Day, March 20. 

 The meeting was called to order by the President at 10.05 A. M. 

 The following communications were made : 



2 These notes, with many others of the same kind, will be found in Dr. Nolan's 

 History of the Academy, to be published in connection with the Centenary Cele- 



bration 



