288 proceedings of the academy of [1897. 



May 4. 



Mr. Charles P. Perot in the Chair. 

 Thirty-four persons present. 



The death, April 29th, of Geo. W. Biddle, a member, was 

 announced. 



May 11. 



Mr. Charles P. Perot in the Chair. 



Twenty-eight persons present. 



A paper entitled "On a Collection of Small Mammals from 

 Northeastern North Carolina," by Samuel N. Rhoads and Robert 

 T. Young was presented for publication. 



May 18. 



J. Cheston Morris, M. D., in the Chair. 



Thirty-six persons present. 



A paper entitled " New Achatinidse and Helicidse from Somali- 

 land," by Henry A. Pilsbry, was presented for publication. 



May 25. 

 Dr. C. N. Peirce in the Chair. 

 Twenty-four persons present. 



A paper entitled " Vertebrate Remains from the Port Kennedy 

 Bone Deposit," by Edward D. Cope, was presented for publication. 



The Hayden Memorial Geological Committee furnished the 

 following supplementary note to its report recommending the con- 

 ferring of the award for 1897 on Prof. Karpinski : — 



Alexander Karpinski, the son of a Mining Engineer of good 

 family in Moscow, was born January 6, 1847, at Bogoslowsk, in the 

 mining district of that name in the Urals. 



After the end of his course of sciences at the Imperial Institute 

 of Mines at St. Petersburg, he was appointed in 1869 adjunct, and 



