100 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



April 2<lth. 

 Mr. Lea, President, in the Chair. 



Forty-four members present. 



The Committee to whom was referred the communication addressed 

 to Isaac Lea, Esq., President of the Academy of Natural Sciences, by 

 A. D. Jessup, E. A. Jessup and Clara J. Moore, under date of March 

 6th, 1860, 



Reported, That the unsolicited efforts of the children of the late 

 Augustus E. Jessup to ascertain any expressed intentions on his part 

 to pecuniarily benefit the cause of science through this Academy, and 

 the filial regard and liberal feeling evinced by them in fulfilling his 

 supposed views, satisfy your Committee that the respect and esteem 

 entertained by the Academy for the father, is also merited by the 

 children of our lamented fellow member, Augustus E. Jessup, Esq. 



Your Committee recommend that the President and Curators of 

 this Academy shall, ex-officio, be a perpetual Committee under the di- 

 rection of the Academy to carry out the intentions of the late Augus- 

 tus E. Jessup, Esq., as expressed in the above mentioned letter of his 

 children, A. D. Jessup, E. A. Jessup and Clara D. Moore, and that 

 said Committee shall make a quarterly report of their proceedings, your 

 Committee also recommend that a copy of the Publications of this 

 Academy shall be furnished to each of the above named children of the 

 late Augustus E. Jessup during life, commencing with the volumes 

 now in progress. Wm. S. Vaux, Chairman of Committee. 



The report was unanimously adopted. 



The Committee of the Biological Department to whom was referred 

 the communication "On the Physical and Chemical Characteristics of 

 Corroval and Vao, two recently discovered varieties of Woorara, and on 

 a new alkaloid containing their active principle, by William A. Ham- 

 mond, M. D., Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army, and S. Weir Mitchell, 

 M. D., Lecturer on Physiology, in the Philadelphia Medical Associa- 

 tion," reported in favor of it? publication in the Proceedings. 



The following papers were, on the report of the Committees to whom 

 they had been referred, ordered to be published in the Proceedings : 



Conspectus Piscium in Expeditions ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, C. Bin- 

 gold et J. Rodgers ducibus, a Gulielmo Stimpson collectorum. SICYDI- 



AN.E: 



AUCTORE THEO. GILL. 



SlCTDIANiE Gill. 



Corpus elongatuni, antice subcylindricurn, squamosum vel nudum ; aper- 

 turse brancliiales paulo fissse, verticales ; caput elongatum, rostro prominens ; 

 maxilla inferior triangularis, crassa ; labium inferius plerumque dentibus gra- 

 cilibus, confertissimis prseditum. 



Pinnae dorsales duse ; pinna? pectorales basi latse fere verticales ; pinna? ven- 

 trales in modo disci conjunctse, ad basin pectori adhaerentes. 



Haec subfamilia bene distinguitur ab subfamiliis "Gobinae " Gill et "Triden- 



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