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February 7. 

 Mr. Thomas Meeiian, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Twenty-four persons present. 



The death of Geo. AV. Tryon, Jr. on the 5th inst. having been 

 annoimced the following minute was adopted : — 



While this may not be the time to fully set forth the services 

 which liave been rendered to this Academy and to the scientific 

 world by our departed member Geo. W. Tryon, Jr., yet it is fitting 

 that the sad announcement of his death should be followed by im- 

 mediate though brief expression of our sorrow. — Therefore be it 



Resolved — That by the death of Mr. Tryon, the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia is bereft, of one of its most faithful 

 and useful workers — one whose devotion to the interests of the in- 

 stitution has been proven during nearly thirty years in varied and 

 responsible positions of trust, by repeated and generous gifts, and 

 above all, by untiring labor for its advancement; and whose earnest- 

 ness and assiduity in his chosen field of study have been rewarded 

 with a w^ell-earned celebrity which will forever connect his name 

 with the history and progress of conchological science. 



Resolved — That we are enabled by our owft knowledge of his 

 kindly, helpful and endearing qualities to sympathize heartily with 

 his fimily in their irreparable loss. 



Dr. W. S. W. Ruschenberger was appointed to prepare a bio- 

 graphical notice of Mr. Tryon for publication in the Proceedings. 



Februry 13. 



Meeting of the Botanical Section. 



The Director, Dr. W. S. W. Ruschenberger, in the chair. 



The death of Dr. Asa Gray, on January 30, was announced and 

 the following minute which had been adopted by the Academy at 

 the meeting held February 7, Avas read : — 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia has lejirned 

 with deep sorrow of the death of Professor Asa Gray of Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts, who was elected a correspondent in 1836. In plac- 

 ing this record in our Proceedings we are unable to give adequate 

 expression to our sense of the great loss which we, in common with 

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