154 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [April, 



April 2. 

 Mr. Charles Morris in the Chair. 



Thirty-eight persons present, 



The Publication Committee reported the reception of the following 

 papers : 



"Fixation of the Single Type (Lectotype) specimens of species of 

 American Orthoptera, Part II." By A. N. Caudell and Morgan 

 Hebard (March 28). 



"The Relation of Plant Protoplasm to its Environment." By 

 John Muirhead Macfarlane, D.Sc. (March 29). 



The Chair announced the death, February 26, of Graceanna Lewis, 

 a member. 



Dr. Henry Tucker made a communication on harmless and 

 useful snakes, illustrated by lantern slides. (No abstract.) 



The death of Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Jr., Ph.D., having 

 been announced at a previous meeting, the following minute, pro- 

 posed by Dr. Philip P. Calvert, was unanimously adopted: 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia has heard 

 with deep regret of the death of Prof. Thomas Harrison Mont- 

 gomery, Jr., on March 19, 1912. 



Prof. Montgomery was a grandson of Samuel George Morton, 

 President of this Academy from 1849-1851, widely known for his 

 collection and studies of human craniology. To that ancestor we 

 may trace Montgomery's taste for natural history which led him to 

 study zoology in the University of Berlin (where he received the Ph.D. 

 in 1894) and to fill positions of instruction and research in the Wagner 

 Free Institute of Science, the Wistar Institute of Anatomy, the 

 Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory and the Universities of 

 Texas and of Pennsylvania. He was elected a member of this 

 Academy February 23, 1897. He served on the Committee of 

 Instruction and Lectures for 1903 and on the Committee on Accounts 

 from 1909. He was the first to respond to the invitation to contribute 

 to the Centenary Commemorative Volume and his memoir on 

 Human Spermatogenesis was the last paper completed by him, 

 although he did not live to read it at the anniversary meeting. 



Barely thirty-nine years old when he died, he would have been 



