1897.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 537 



sifor Frazer 2, Frank C. Baker 1, C. B. Moore 1, Marquis de Na- 

 daillac 1, T. Chalkley Palmer 1, Mary A. Schively 1, Charles H. 

 Johnson 1, Harold Heath 1, John Ford 1, Philip P. Calvert 1, E. 

 Goldsmith 1, James E. Benedict 1, John Van Denburg 1, H. Von 

 Ihering 1, Thomas Meehan 1. Of these 27 have been printed in 

 the Proceedings, two in the Journal, while two others have been re- 

 ported on favorably for the Proceedings. One paper has been re- 

 turned to the author, one has been withdrawn by the author, and 

 five are held under advisement. In addition to the above an elabo- 

 rate memoir by the late Edw. D. Cope on the organic remains of 

 the Port Kennedy Cave Deposit, probably the last work completed 

 by the distinguished author, is in the hands of the Publication Com- 

 mittee, and will be presented as soon as means for the required illus- 

 trations can be secured. 



Eighteen members and two correspondents have been elected. 

 The deaths of ten members and four correspondents have been re- 

 corded, four members have been dropped from the roll for non-pay- 

 menl of dues, and eleven members have resigned, as follows : Arthur 

 A. Bliss, J. S. de Benneville, Jean Fraley Hallowell, Henry T. 

 Coates, Thomas Earle White, M. L. Orum, William Thomson, John 

 Struthers, Edgar W. Earle, Edward C. Kirk and B. W. Griffiths. 



In addition to the other societies heretofore reported as meeting 

 in the Academy, the Philadelphia Branch of the Boston Mycologi- 

 cal Club has been granted permission to hold its sessions in the 

 Council room once a week at an hour not otherwise appropriated. 



The Committee on cheaper rates of postage on natural history 

 material appointed on September 5, 1893, has informed the Acad- 

 emy that its labors have been successful, a proposed modification of 

 the postal laws having been adopted by the Universal Postal Union 

 whereby specimens of natural history are admitted to the mails of 

 the Union at the same rates as samples of merchandise. The Acad- 

 emy is to be congratulated that this very desirable result is due to 

 the efficiency of its Committee, which consisted of Messrs. Calvert, 

 Pilsbry and Woolman. 



An application to the Legislature authorized March 30, 1897, for 

 an appropriation from the public funds toward the furnishing of 

 the new building of the Academy, was productive of absolutely no 

 result. 



The Hayden Memorial Geological Award for 1897 was conferred 

 on Professor A. Karpinski, Director of the Geological Survey of 



