1920.] NATURA.T SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 83 



March 16. 



The President, John Cadwalader, A.M., LL.D., in the Chair. 



Forty-six persons present. 



The deaths of the following members were announced: Robert E. 

 Peary and Reuben Haines; and Sir James A. Grant, a Correspondent. 



Mr. Stewardson Brown made a communication on: "Native 

 Orchids of Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the Herbarium of the 

 Academy," and Mr. J. Fletcher Street exhibited a series of 

 elegantly colored lantern slides of local orchids and associated plants. 

 (No abstracts.) 



The following were elected members: J. Franklin McFadden, 

 Lawrence J. Morris, Edward R. Wood, Jr., T. Wistar Brown, 3rd, 

 Hugh F. Munro, Joseph G. Lovering, Frank B. Bower,and Astley 

 P. C. Ashhurst. 



The Publication Committee reported the reception of the follow- 

 ing papers for publication: 



" Scrophulariacese of the Southeastern United States," by Fran- 

 cis W. Pennell. 



''MoUusca from Central America and Mexico," by Henry A. 

 Pilsbry. 



"Notes on New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia Fishes," by 

 Henry W. Fowler. 



"Costa Rican Land and Freshwater Mollusks," by Henry A. 

 Pilsbry. 



"Studies in Malayan, Papuan and Australian Mantidse," by 

 Morgan Hebard. 



"Observations on the Soil Acidity of Ericaceae and Associated 

 Plants in the Middle Atlantic States," by Edgar T. Wherry. 



The following was ordered to be printed : 



