1917.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 339 



November 20. 

 Henry Skinner, ]\I.D., in the Chair. 



Forty-four persons present. 



The PubHcation Committee reported the reception of papers 

 under the following titles: 



''Marine INIollusks of Hawaii, I-III," by Henry A. Pilsbry. 



"Notes on INIexican Melanopli," bj^ Morgan Hebard. 



"Concerning Rafinesque's Precis des Decouvertes Somiologiques," 

 b}^ David Starr Jordan. 



"On a forgotten genus of sharks," by David Starr Jordan. 



"The Myth of the ship-holder: Studies in Echeneis and Re- 

 niora, I," by E. W. Gudger. 



"New and little known Gastropoda from the Upper Cretaceous 

 of Tennessee," by Bruce Wade. 



" Colpichthys, Thirinops, and Austromenidia. New Genera of 

 Atherinoid fishes from the New World," by Carl L. Hubbs. 



The deaths of the following members were announced: 



Henry P. Dixon. 



William D. Winsor. 



Amos Peaslee Brown, Ph.D. 



The death of William Bullock Clark, a correspondent, was also 

 announced. 



Professor William Alanson Bryan made a communication 

 entitled "A Diplomatic Adventure of a Naturalist on a Pacific 

 Island." (No abstract.) 



The following were elected members: 



Henry D. Moore. E. M. Wistar. 



George B. Evans. Thomas Skelton Harrison. 



Effingham B. Morris, Jr. Milton Campbell. 



Philip A. Castner. William B. Linn. 



Charles M. Rainsford. John Frederick Lewis. 



Marshall S. Morgan. George Barrie. 



J. W. Green. David B. Shepp. 



