30 [February, 



Resolved, That the income of the Stott legacy be applied to the pay- 

 ment of the expense of publication of papers ordered by the Academy 

 for the Journal. 



The Auditors reported that they had examined the Report of the 

 Treasurer for 1851, and had found it correct. 



The Academy then proceeded to an election for Standing Committees 

 for 1852. The Tellers announced the following result : 



Ethnology, John S. Phillips, James C. Fisher, Robert Pearsall; 

 Coinjyarative Anatomy and General Zoology, Joseph Leidy, Edward 

 Hallowell, John Neill ; Mammalogy^ James C. Fisher, E. J. Lewis, 

 S. W. Woodhouse ; Ornithology, John Cassin, Edward Harris, T. B. 

 Wilson; Herpetology and Ichthyology, E. Hallowell, John Cassin, 

 William Keller; Conchology, Isaac Lea, T. B. Wilson, W. S. W. 

 Ruschenberger ; Entomology and Crustacea, S. S. Haldeman, Robert 

 Bridges, Wm. S. Zantzinger; Botany, R. Bridges, Wm. S. Zantzinger, 

 Gravin Watson; T alceontology , T. A. Conrad, Joseph Leidy, B. Howard 

 Rand; Geology, J. Price Wetherill, Theodore F. Moss, Aubrey H. 

 Smith; Mineralogy, Wm. S. Yaux, Samuel Ashmead, Charles M. 

 Wetherill; P%sics, Benj. H. Coates, James C. Fisher, Wm. Parker 

 Foulke; Library, Thomas B. Wilson, Robert Bridges, Robert E. Pe- 

 terson; Proceedings, Wm. S. Zantzinger, Joseph Leidy, W. S. AV. 

 Ruschenberger. 



ELECTION. 



Samuel Webber, M. D., of Charlestown, N. Hampshire, was elected a 

 Correspondent, and Caspar W. Sharpless, of Philadelphia, was elected a 

 Member of the Academy. 



February Zd. 

 Vice President Bridges in the Chair. 



The following communication was read from Henry A. Ford, M. D., 

 dated Glasstown, G-aboon River, West Africa, Nov. 10th, 1851, on the 

 characteristics of the Troglodytes Grorilla, accompanying the very fine 

 skeleton of that animal presented by him to the Academy, and announced 

 this evening. 



"The skeleton that I have the honor of presenting to your Society, is that of the 

 newly discovered species of Orang, which was first described by Drs. Savage 

 and Wyman, (in the Boston Journal of Natural History, 1847) and by them called 

 Troglodytes Gorilla, and by the natives on this coast, "Ngena." 



The earliest distinct notice of this species of Orang was made, I believe, by 

 Bowditch in 1817, on his return from his Ashantee Mission in a vessel that 

 visited this river on its passage to England from Cape Coast Castle. His de- 

 scription, though in many respects incorrect, doubtless refers to this species, as 

 the name and locality sufficiently identify the animal he describes with the 

 specimen I have obtained.* 



I would also remark here, that all subsequent information, as well as all the 

 specimens in the hands of Europeans, have been obtained in this river. 



This animal inhabits the range of mountains that traverse the interior of 



* See Mission to Ashunlee byT. Edward BowdilchEsq., 4to, London, 1819. Chapter on 

 Gaboon River. 



