296 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [May, 



May 4. 



Arthur Erwin Brown, Sc.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



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Sixty-five persons present. 



The Publication Committee reported the reception of a paper 

 entitled "The Vegetation of the Salt Marshes and of the Salt and Fresh- 

 water Ponds of Northern Coastal New Jersey," by John W. Harsh- 

 berger, Ph.D. (April 24). 



The deaths of Charles Hartshorne, October 30, 1908, and of Dr. 

 Joseph Thomas, January 28, 1909, members, were announced. 



Mr. Stewardson Brown made a communication on a botanical 

 trip to the headwaters of the Saskatchewan and Athabasca Rivers, 

 British Columbia. (No abstract.) 



May 18. 



Arthur Erwin Brown, Sc.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Forty-one persons present. 



The presentation of a paper entitled "The Occurrence of Bufo 

 columbiensis East of the Rocky Mountains," by Robert T. Young 

 (May 5), was reported by the Publication Committee. 



The death of Dr. C. N. Peirce, a member of the Council, May 15, was 

 announced. 



Prof. Gilbert Van Ingen made a communication on the so-called 

 Clinton If on Ore of Bloomsburg, Penna. (No abstract.) 



Mr. Edgar T. Wherry spoke of the silicified woods of the New Red. 

 (No abstracts.) 



Scolithus linearis Burrows with Orifice Complete. — Mr. Benjamin 

 Smith Lyman remarked that Scolithus linearis, so abundant at many 

 places in the Pennsylvania Cambrian quartzite, was long supposed to 

 be a fucoid plant; and even so late as thirty years ago was in a well- 

 known valuable text-book called a plant, though at least fifteen years 



