NATURAL SCIENCES OP PHILADELPHIA. 595 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



For 1862. 



Daring the year ending 30th November, 1862, there have been elected eleven 

 members and thirteen correspondents. Five members have resigned. 



The following members have died : Mr. George W. Peterson, Mr. Charles 

 Henry Fisher, Mr. Henry J. Boiler, Dr. Henry E. Drayton, Mr. Hugh Cooper 

 Hanson, Mr. Richard Wistar, Major Henry J. Biddle, General Francis E. Pat- 

 terson. 



The deaths of the following Correspondents have been announced : Mr. Grate- 

 loup, of Bordeaux; Professor Ormsby M. Mitchel, of Cincinnati, 0. 



The number of papers presented for publication during the past year has 

 been ninety-five, as follows : 



By Theodore Gill, twenty-nine; Isaac Lea, LL. D., nine ; E. D. Cope, eight ; 

 George W. Tryon, sis ; S. B. Buckley and John L. Le Conte, M. D., each five ; 

 Temple Prime and Elliott Coues, each three ; Win. M. Gabb, F. B. Meek and F. 

 V. Hayden, M. D., J. H. Slack, M. D., Wm. H. Edwards, Wm. Stimpson, Augus- 

 tus R. Grote, Prof. Asa Gray, each two ; Charles C. Abbott, Sidney S. Lyon, 

 Thomas Meehan, George H. Horn, Harrison Allen, M. D., W. G. Binney and 

 George W. Tryon, Benjamin D. Walsh, M. A., John Cassin, T. A. Conrad, John 

 Warner, Alexander Winchell, D. G. Elliott, F. G. S., Horatio C. Wood, Jr., each 

 one. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



B. HOWARD RAND, M. D., 



Recording Secretary. 



REPORT OF THE CURATORS. 



For 1862. 



The collections of the Museum of the Academy continue in their usual good 

 state of preservation. During the year the most important additions have 

 been as follows : 



1. A valuable collection in Natural History, presented by Dr. I. I. Hayes, 

 and made by him during his late Arctic Expedition, consisting of skins and 

 skeletons of mammals, skins of birds, marine dredgings, plants, minerals, 

 fossils and Esquimaux skulls. 



2. A collection of about six hundred species of West Indian marine shells, 

 presented by Dr. A. Heermann. 



Besides the foregoing, the following have been received in the various de- 

 partments of Natural History: 



Mammals. Eleven specimens of ten species were presented by Rev. Alden 

 Grout, and M. J. McKen, Dr. J. H. Slack, Van Amburgh & Co., F. Rhinelan- 

 der, Dr. J. Evans, Mr. Howard and Dr. Parker. 



Birds. Ten specimens were presented by Dr. Wilson, Dr. J. Evans, Dr. J. 

 H. Slack, W. H. Yeaton, J. Buzby and Mrs. Farren. 



Reptiles. The Smithsonian Institution presented 55 specimens of 42 spe- 

 cies, besides 30 others in the name of the U. S. Government. Dr. Le Conte 

 presented 60 specimens of 23 species ; Mr. E. D. Cope 44 specimens of 3!) 

 species ; Rev. Alden Grout and M. J. McKen 15 specimens of 13 species ; John 

 Xantus 13 specimens of 9 species ; and several others were received from Dr. 

 T. B. Wilson, Dr. J. H. Slack and Dr. J. Evans. Eighty-six specimens of 29 

 species were also obtained in exchange. 



Fishes. Small collections containing numerous specimens of about 40 

 species were presented by Rev. A. Grout and M. J. McKen, Capt. T. Y. Field, 

 E. D. Cope, C. F. Bernhardt, J. Roosevelt and S. Powel. 



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