458 proceedings of the academy of [1897. 



November 2. 

 Mr. Chas. P. Perot in the Chair. 

 Twenty-six persons present. 



November 9. 

 The President, Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., in the Chair. 

 Twenty-seven persons present. 



Papers under the following titles were presented for publication : — 



" New Brazilian Streptaxidse," by Henry A. Pilsbry. 

 "Notes on Living and Extinct Species of North American 

 Bovidse," by Samuel N. Rhoads. 



November 16. 



The President, Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., in the Chair. 



Thirty-five persons present. 



The death of Harrison Allen, M. D., on the 14th inst, was 

 announced. Whereupon, after a statement by the Chair of his 

 services to the Academy, the following minute was unanimously 

 adopted : — 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia desires 

 to place on record its appreciation of the great loss it has sustained 

 in the death of Dr. Harrison Allen. His earliest scientific 

 work was accomplished within its walls and his subsequent investi- 

 gations, including those which engaged his attention at the time of 

 his death, were all either directly or indirectly contributions to its 

 credit and standing in the scientific world. 



In the several executive and administrative offices to which he 

 had been appointed — Corresponding Secretary, Member of the 

 Council and of the Library Committee — his performance of the 

 duties of each was characterized by loyalty to the best interests of ' 

 the society. 



While his fellow-members rejoice in the just recognition accorded 

 him by the scientific world as Comparative Anatomist, Mammalogist 



