572 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY FOR 1860. 



During the year ending 30th November, 1860, there have been elected, 

 twenty-one members and six correspondents. 



One member has resigned. 



Three members have forfeited their membership. 



The elections of four members have been reconsidered and declared null and 

 void under Art. IV. of Chapter II. of the By-laws. 



Seven members have died, to wit : Major John Le Conte, late Vice-President 

 of the Academy, Mr. George W. Carpenter, late Treasurer of the Academy. 

 Edward Hallowell, M. D., Mr. Augustus E. Jessup, Mr. Peter A. Browne, 

 Bernard Henry, M. D., Henry Clay Caldwell, M. D., late U. S. Navy. 



The deaths of the following correspondents have been announced : Mr. Vic- 

 tor Andubon, Prof. A. M. C. Dumeril, Dr. David Dale Owen. 



On the 26th of June, Mr. William C. Henszey was unanimously elected 

 Treasurer, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. George W. Car- 

 penter. 



During the same period the following papers were read before the Academy, 

 and published in its Proceedings and Journal, except one of those read before 

 the Biological Department, which was published in a medical Journal select- 

 ed by the author, Mr. Gabb's Catalogue of the Museum and Dr. Fisher's 

 Index, not yet printed. 



By J. G. Anthony: "Descriptions of new Species of American fiuviatile 

 Gasterpods." 



By Charles C. Abbott, six, to wit : "Descriptions of new Species of Ameri- 

 can fresh-water Fishes." "Description of a new Species of Chatoessus, etc." 

 Descriptions of new Species of North American Cyprinidae." " Description 

 of a new species of Exocetus from Chili." " Descriptions of new Species of 

 apodal Fishes, etc." 



By W. G. Binney, two, to wit: "Notes on American Land Shells, No. 6." 

 'Description of new Species of Pulmonata, etc." 



By J. B. Buckley, three, to wit : " Texas Ants." "The Stinging or Mound- 

 making Ant of Texas, etc." "Descriptions of several new Species of Plants." 



By P. P. Carpenter, " Notice of a Collection of Shells, made at Cape San 

 Lucas, Lower California." 



By John Cassin, four, to wit: "Catalogue of a Collection of Birds, made 

 luring the survey of a route for a ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien, 

 etc., with notes and descriptions of new species," two papers. " Descriptions 

 of new Birds of Western Africa, etc.," published in the Journal. " Catalogue 

 of Birds from the Island of St. Thomas, W. I., etc." 



By Brackenridge Clemens, M. D., five, to wit : " Contributions to American 

 Lepidopterology, " parts 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 



By T. A. Conrad, three, to wit : " Descriptions of new Cretaceous and Eocene 

 Shells of Mississippi and Alabama, etc., "two papers, published in the Journal. 

 "Notes on Shells." 



By E. D. Cope, eight, to wit : "Catalogue of the Venomous Serpents in the 

 Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, etc.," two pa- 

 pers. "Catalogue of the Calamarian Serpents in the Museum of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia," " Catalogue of the Colubridse, in the 

 Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia," with notes and 

 descriptions of new Species. " Notes and Descriptions of new and little-known 

 American Reptiles." "Descriptions of Reptiles from tropical America and 

 Asia." "The Reptilia of the North Pacific Exploring Expedition, etc., by 

 Edward Hallowell, M. D., edited by E. D. Cope." " Descriptions of new Species 

 of the Reptilian Genera Hyperolius, Liuperus and Tropidodipsas." 



By Rafael Montes d'Oca, four, to wit: "The Mexican Humming Birds," 

 parts 1, 2, 3 and 4. 



By James C. Fisher, M. D. : "Index to the Genera described or referred to 



[Dec. 



