694 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Oct., 



The Publication Committee reported the reception of a paper en- 

 titled "Catalogue of the Land and Fresh-water Mollusca of Taiwan 

 (Formosa) with descriptions of new species," by Henry A. Pilsbry 

 and Y. Hirase. (October 9.) 



Dr. Benjamin Sharp made a communication on oyster culture, 

 native and foreign, illustrated by lantern slides. (No abstract.) 



Alexander Wilson's Tombstone. — Mr. Nathaniel E. Janney re- 

 marked that on his first visit in 1862 to the grave of Alexander Wilson 

 in the Old Swedes' Churchyard on Water street, north of Washing- 

 ton avenue in this city, the inscription was entirely legible, l^ut from 

 year to year by the action of the elements it had grown more and more 

 indistinct, until, on the occasion of a visit last month, it was found to 

 be almost obliterated. 



Obtaining the consent of a warden of the church he employed a stone- 

 cutter who resurfaced the stone and renewed the original inscription 

 which reads as follows : 



This IMonument 



Covers the remains of 



Alexander Wilson 



Author of the 



American Ornithology 



He was born in Renfrewshire, Scotland 



on the 6th of Jaly, 1766. 



Emigrated to the United States 



in the year 1794. 



and died in Philadelphia 



of the dysentery 



on the 23rd August, 1813 



Aged 47. 



Ingenio stat sine morte decus. 



The Latin line is notgi^•en by Ord in his Life of Wilson. 



Ezra T. Cresson, Jr., and Rev. J. A. Tomlinson were elected mem- 

 bers. 



The following were ordered to be printed: 



