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May and November be designated for tlie presentation and 

 free discussion of subjects of broad philosopbic interest, and 

 that a Committee of five be appointed to make the necessary 

 preparations therefor. 



The recommendations of the Board of Officers and Council 

 were approved and the Chairman referred the appointment 

 of the Committee to the President of the Society. 



The following deaths were announced : 



Hon. Henry Eeed, Philadelphia, February 23, 1896, set. 49, 



Dr. Owen Jones Wister, Philadelphia, February 2-i, 1896, 

 c^t. 70. 



The President, by letter, announced that he had appointed 

 J. G, Rosengarten to prepare the obituary of Rev. W. H. 

 Furness, D.D., and that the appointment had been accepted. 



The stated business of the meeting being the election of 

 members, the nominations were spoken to, and the ballots 

 cast, Secretaries Frazer and DuBois acting as Tellers, 



The following papers were presented for publication in the 

 Transactions of the Society : 



An essay on ' ' The Development of the Mouth Parts of 

 Certain Insects," by J. B. Smith, Sc.D. 



"A New Method of Determining the Perturbations of the 

 Minor Planets," by Wm. McKnight Ritter, M.A." 



On motion, referred to Committees for examination and 

 report. 



The Tellers being prepared to report, announced that 



2278. Dr. A. E. Kennelly, Philadelphia ; 



2279. Wm. Pitts Mason, Troy, N. Y.; 



2280. Rev. H. C. McCook, Philadelphia ; 



2281. Henry Pettit, Overbrook, Pa.; 

 had been elected. 



The Society, on motion, adjourned. 



