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McKean of Philadelphia ; Prof. Ira Remsen of Baltimore ; 

 Naval Institute, Annapolis ; Mr. J. H. Hickcox, the United 

 States Naval Observatory and the Light-house Board, Washing- 

 ton ; Mr. Jed. Hotchkiss of Staunton, Va. ; and the Cincinnati 

 Society of Natural History. 



The Committee appointed to examine the paper of Prof. 

 Cope on the Intercentrum of the Vertebrata, reported it worthy 

 of publication in the Transactions. The report was accepted 

 and the Committee discharged. 



The Committee appointed to examine Miss Helen C. de S. 

 Abbott's paper on Yucca angustifolia, reported in favor of 

 its publication, and was discharged. 



On motion, the Society ordered the publication of both of 

 the above papers in its Transactions. 



The death of Joshua B. Lippincott was announced as having 

 taken place at Philadelphia on January 5, 1886, in the seventy- 

 fourth year of his age, and, on motion, the President was au- 

 thorized to appoint at his discretion a suitable person to pre- 

 pare the usual obituary sketch. 



The stated business of the meeting was then taken up and 

 Henry Phillips, Jr., Esq., was re-elected Librarian for the en- 

 suing year, and the following Standing Committees appointed : 



Finance, 

 Henry Windsor, J. P. Wetherill, W. B. Eogers. 



Publication, 



D. G. Brinton, C. M. Cresson, George H. Horn, 



Persifor Frazer, J. Blodgett Britton. 



Hall, 



J. Sergeant Price, Wm. A. Ingham, Philip H. Law. 



Library, 

 Henry Phillips, Jr., E. J. Houston, Wm. V. McKean, 

 Thomas H. Dudley, John R. Baker. 



Mr. Lesley read a paper " On the evident Beduwin origin of 

 the Shedi deity in the Hebrew Scriptures, commonly translated 



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