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Nominations of Officers for- 1892-'93. 



For Honorary President — John S. Newberry. 

 For President — Oliver P. Hubbard. 

 For 1st Vice-President — J A. Allen. 

 For 2d Vice-President — H. Carrington Bolton. 

 For Corresponding Secretary — Thomas L. Casey. 

 For Recording Secretary — H. T. Yulte. 

 For Treasurer — Henry Dudley. 

 For Librarian — James F. Kemp. 



For Councillors — N. L. Britton, Charles F. Cox, D. S. Mar- 

 tin, H. F. Osborn, J. K. Bees, W. P. Trowbridge. 



For Curators — Geo. F. Kunz, Harold Jacoby, Arthur Hol- 



LICIv, H. H. RUSBY, F. G. WiECHMAN. 



For Finance Committee — John H. Hinton, H. G. Marquand, 

 0. B. Potter. 



On motion the chair appointed Messrs. Tatlock and Fiske 

 tellers. The election proceeded. At the close the tellers made their 

 report, which was read by the Secretary, accepted, and the officers 

 declared duly elected. 



Prof. Rees resigned the chair to Mr. Dudley, and addressed the 

 meeting- on the subject of increasing the Publication Fund. He 

 favored the plan of having a suitable hall and giving a course of 

 Public Lectures, to which a small charge should be made for admit- 

 tance. To this end he introduced the following resolution : — 



Resolved, That the Council be requested to consider the advisa- 

 bility of renting a hall and giving a course of lectures, for which a 

 charge should be made, the profits to be placed to the credit of the 

 Puljlication Fund. 



Remarks pro and coyi were made by Profs. Britton, Martin, 

 Bolton, and others, and the aiatter was referred to the Council for 

 action. 



Dr. Bolton called attention to the fact that the delay in issuing 

 the Transactions was due to remissness of authors. 



Mr. Jacoby favored the plan of requesting authors to submit 

 abstracts of their papers for publication before reading them. 



Dr. Britton thought that the trouble might be corrected by 

 sending formal notices. 



Dr. Bolton replied that such a plan had been tried with little 



