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December 2. 

 Mr. Benjamin Smith Lyman in the Chair. 



Forty-eight persons present. 



The death of Alfred Russel Wallace, a correspondent, November 

 7, was announced. 



The following was unanimously adopted: 



Whereas, The Academy has been informed by the Council of the 

 receipt and adoption of a final report on the Centenary Celebration 

 and the discharge of the Committee having charge thereof, 



Resolved, That the Academy, approving of the action of the 

 Council, desires to express its obligation to the Committee and to 

 record on the minutes its thanks for the entirely adequate and 

 satisfactory discharge of its duties, resulting in a record of achieve- 

 ment which cannot fail to be an incentive to those who will celebrate 

 the second centenary of the Academy in 2012. 



Dr. Edgar T. Wherry made an illustrated report on the Twelfth 

 International Geological Congress. (No abstract.) 



Another report on the same subject was read from Prof. R. A. F. 

 Penrose, Jr. 



December 16. 



The President, Samuel G. Dixon, M.D., LL.D., in the Chair. 



The Publication Committee reported the reception of papers 

 under the following titles: 



"The anatomy of two Brazilian land shells, Anostoma depressum 

 and Tomigerus clausus," by Harold Heath (November 24). 



"Data on the orthopteran faunistics of Eastern Pennsylvania and 

 Southern New Jersey," by Henry Fox (December 3, 1913). 



The following were ordered to be printed: 



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