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lustrate Prof. Cope's paper on the brain of Corypliodon Ele- 

 phantopus. _ 



Mr. E. K. Price offered the following resolution which 

 was seconded and passed : 



Resolved, That since by the death of Messrs. Durand, Trego and Guillou, 

 tliere are three vacancies in the Committee on tlie Michaux Legacy, tliat 

 said vacancies be now filled by new appointments. 



Mr. Joseph P. Townsend, Mr. Aubrey H. Smith, and Mr. 

 W. M. Tilghraan, nominated respectively by Mr. Price, Dr. 

 Cresson and Mr. J. S. Price, were elected to fill the va- 

 cancies. 



Mr. E. K. Price offered the following resolution, which 

 was seconded and passed : 



Resolved, That the Committee on the Michaux Legacy be authorized 

 to consider and report to the Society, from time to time, what ajipropria- 

 lions should be made of the residue of the income of that Legacy, so that 

 the purposes of his will may be faithfully executed. 



Dr. Barker having explained that Prof. Draper, elected 

 member of this Society in 1844, had never received copies 

 of the Proceedings, and there being no likelihood that the 

 Society would incur at present the expense of reprinting the 

 exhausted numbers of the series, it was moved and adopted 

 that the Secretaries be authorized to make an exception 

 specially in his case, and take one of the twenty reserved 

 sets, from the beginning, and present it to Prof. Draper. 



Pending nominations number 830 to 834, 835, and new 

 nomination 836 Avere read. 



And the meeting was adjourned. 



Statexl Meeting, April 2Qlh, 1877. 



Present, 15 members. 



Vice-President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Austrian Acade- 

 my, Vienna, November 1, 1876. 



