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November 6. 

 The President, Dr. Jos. Leidy, in the chair. 

 Forty-nine persons present. 



November 13. 

 Mr. Charles Morri§ in the chair. ' 



Thirty-six persons present. 



A paper entitled "Contributions to the Life History of Plants, 

 No. III." By Thomas Meehan, was presented for publication. 



November 20. 



Rev. Henry C. ]\IcCook D. D., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Twenty-four persons })resent. 



The President was directed to convey to Mrs Clara Jessup 

 Bloomfield Moore the thanks of the Academy for her gift of Five 

 Thousand Dollars as an addition to the fund endowed by her father, 

 the late Augustus E. Jessup. 



November 27. 

 The President Dr. Jos. Leidy, in the chair. 



Thirty-four persons present. 



Dr. W. S. W. Ruschenberger read his biographical notice of the 

 late Geo. W. Tryon Jr. prepared at the request of the Academy. 



RemarlcH on the fauna of Beach Haven, iV. J. — Prof. Leidy stated 

 that he had spent the last two summers at Beach Haven, on which 

 he made the following remarks : The place, a summer resort, is 

 situated on the island of Long Branch, a sand bar but a few feet 

 above the ocean level, 22 miles long and little more than half a mile 

 wide, off the New Jersey coast, from which it is separated by Little 

 Egg Harbor and Barnegat Bays. The island consists of the ocean 

 beach, flanked by long low sand hills and meadows extending to the 

 bays. It is treeless, but produces frequent patches of wax-myrtle, 

 Myrka cerifera. While the variety of marine animal life in the 

 vicinity is comparatively small, a few forms adapted to the special 

 localities are abundant. The ocean beach consisting mainly of fine 

 silicious sand without pebbles, between tides, swarms with the mole 



