166 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1897. 



April 6. 

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

 Twenty-nine persons present. 



April 13. 

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

 Thirty-eight persons present. 



Papers under the following titles were presented for publication : — 



" A Contribution to the Mammalogy of Central Pennsylvania," 

 by Samuel N. Rhoads. 



"A New Southeastern Race of the Little Brown Bat," by Samuel 

 N. Rhoads. 



" Contributions to a Knowledge of the Hymenoptera of Brazil, 

 No. 2— Pompilidje," by Wm. J. Fox. 



" Notes on Plant Monstrosities," by Ida A. Keller. 



The death, on the 12th inst., of Edward D. Cope, a member, was 

 announced, whereupon the following minute was unanimously 

 adopted : — 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia has received 

 with profound sorrow the announcement of the death of Prof. 

 Edward Drinker Cope. It is fitting that this meeting should 

 place on record a minute expressive of its sense of the loss sustained. 



The Academy witnessed the beginning and the end of his long 

 labors. It was to its halls he came as a student in 1859, and it was 

 to them he paid his last visit before his final illness. The lustre 

 thrown upon the society by his researches is but a reflex of the 

 spirit of this remarkable man who exhibited, in a way rarely 

 equalled in the history of science, the consecration of a powerful in- 

 tellect to the pursuit of the knowledge of nature. To an almost 

 unerring accuracy of observation he conjoined admirable judgment. 

 He was unexcelled as an expert in the field of vertebrate zoology of 

 both present and extinct forms ; he discovered great numbers of 

 genera and species ; he announced startling and epoch-making 

 schemes of classification ; he framed comprehensive systems of phil- 

 osophy based on biologic premises. 



