548 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [NoV., 



"The structural relations of some Devonian shales in Central 

 New York," by Burnett Smith (November 1). 



The issue of the Journal, Volume XVI, No. 2, was reported. 



The following minute was unanimously adopted and ordered to 

 be duly signed and forwarded: 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia hears 

 with lively satisfaction of the completion of the Biologia Centrali 

 Americana, sixty-three volumes of which have appeared from 1879 

 to the present year. Recognizing the unwearied devotion of its 

 founder and editor, Dr. Frederic Ducane Godman, to the collec- 

 tion of material, its study by specialists, and the sumptuous publica- 

 tion of the results, this Academy tenders its hearty congratulations 

 to him, its distinguished corresponding member. 



The following were elected Correspondents : 



Alfred C. Haddon, Sc.D., of Cambridge, England. 



William Ludwig Johannsen, M.D., of Copenhagen. 



WiUiam Trelease, LL.D., of Urbana, 111. 



William Bateson, of Merton, England. 



Carl Diener, Ph.D., of Vienna. 



Samuel Wendell Williston, Ph.D., of Chicago. 



Charles E. Barrois, of Paris. 



Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, LL.D., of Chicago. 



Albrecht Pench, Ph.D., of Berlin. 



Stanislas Meunier, D.Sc, of Paris. 



The following was ordered to be published: 



