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Kov. dfh. 

 The President, Dr. Hays, in the Chair. 

 Twenty-nine members present. 



Nor. im. 



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

 Twelve members present. 



Nov. 23d. 

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

 Twenty-six members present. 



Nov. 30th. 



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



Twenty-five members present. 



The following gentlemen were elected Members : 



Rev. Z. M. Humphrey and Henry C. Miller. 



JDec. 7th, 1869. 

 The President, Dr. Hays, in the Chair. 

 Twenty-one members present. 



Dec. Uth. 



The President, Dr. Hays, iu the Chair. 



Twenty-nine members present. 



The death of Benj. D. Walsh was announced. 



I Dec. 21st. 



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



Twenty-three members present. 



The following papers were presented for publication: 



"On the Classification of Water Birds." By Elliott Coues. M. D., 



U.S. a;- 



" Characters of some new Hepaticse, mostly North American, to- 

 gether with notes on a few imperfectly described species." By 

 C. F. Austin. , 



Prop. Cope made some remarks on a cranium of the Uyperaodon bidens,Svom 

 the coast of Rhode Island, presented by Samuel Powell, of Newport. He 

 stated that it was a female, which entered the harbor of the latter place with 

 a calf. A male was some time after cast ashore dead near Dennis, Mass., and 



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