^O [April 10, 



On the resolution being put to vote, the yeas and nays being 

 called, it was lost by 12 nays to 5 ayes. 

 Dr. Brinton offered the following : 



Resolved, That papers by non-members be read by title only, except 

 when the author is present, or by unanimous consent of the SocietJ^ 



The resolution was referred by consent of mover to Council. 

 The rough minutes were read, and the Society adjourned. 



April 3 being Good Frida}" and a legal holiday, the 

 meeting was postponed, by direction of the President, until 

 April 10. 



Stated Meeting^ April 10, 1896. 



Vice-President, Dr. Pepper, in the Chair. 



Present, 18 members. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



Acknowledgments of election to membership from M. G. 

 Bertin, Paris, France, March 15, 1896 ; Mr, Henry A. Pilsbry, 

 Philadelphia, March 30, 1896, 



Circular letter from the Principal and Yice-Cliancellor of 

 the University of Glasgow and the Lord Provost of Glasgow, 

 on behalf of the Committee of Arrangements of Jubilee of 

 the Right Hon. Prof. Lord Kelvin, on the completion of the 

 fiftieth year of his tenure of the Chair of Natural Philosophy 

 in the University of Glasgow, requesting the Society to 

 appoint a representative to take part in the celebration, Jane 

 15 and 16, 1896. 



An invitation, on parchment, from the University of Prince- 

 ton, N, J., to attend its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. 



On motion, these letters were referred to the President, with 

 power to appoint representatives. 



Letters of envoy from the K. K. Astronomisch-Meteoro- 

 logische Observatorium, Triest, Austria ; K. Leopoldinisch- 

 Carolinische Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher, Halle 

 a. S,, Prussia; R. Accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 



