112 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [April,. 



April 20. 



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



Twenty-nine persons present. 



The deaths of Thomas Bradley, December 16, 1919, and James 

 H. Windrim, April 26, 1919, were announced. 



Mr. Leon L. Gardner made a communication entitled: ''A Sum- 

 mer's Observations on Birds as Factors in Agriculture with Special 

 Reference to the Crow." (No abstract.) 



Thomas McKean, J. Fletcher Street, W. S. Beach, Charles P. 

 Bower, Joseph Hepburn, Frank R. Mason, Naomi Pennock, and 

 Anna Woolman, were elected Members; and Merritt Lyndon Fer- 

 nald, Hans Friedrich Gadow, Johann Paul Lotsy, Daniel Trembly 

 MacDougal, Raymond Pearl, William Emerson Ritter, William 

 Schaus, William Lutley Sclater, and William Berryman Scott, 

 Correspondents. 



The Publication Committee reported the reception of the follow- 

 ing papers for publication : 



"Correlation between Vegetation and Soil Acidity in Southern 

 New Jersey," by Edgar T. Wherry. 



"Notes on Freshwater Fishes of Formosa. " by Masamitsu Oshima.. 



The following were ordered to be printed. 



