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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 

 HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, FOE PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XXXVII. Januaky, 1898. No. 157. 



Stated Meeting^ January 7, 1898. 



Dr. J. 0. MoREis in the Chair. 



Present, 17 members. 



Dr. T. J. J. See and Mr. S^^dney Geo. Fisher, newly elected 

 members, Avere presented tv. .ae Chair and took their seats. 



Acknowledgments of election to membership were read 

 from Messrs. Charles De Garmo, Arnold E. Ortmann, Thomas 

 J. J. See, Alden Sampson, Sydney George ¥isher, Benjamin 

 Kendall Emerson, Francis L, Patton, Edward S. Holden, and 

 Ethelbert Dndley Warfield. 



x\n invitation was received from the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, to participate in a memorial meet- 

 ing commemorative of Harrison Allen, M.D., and George H. 

 Horn, M.D., to be held at the Academy on December 31, at 

 8 o'clock. 



The Judges and Tellers of the annual election reported the 

 following officers elected for the ensuing year : 



President. 



Frederick Fraley. 



Vice- Presidents. 



E. Otis Kendall, William Pepper, Coleman Sellers. 



Secretaries. 



Persifor Frazer, I. Minis Hays, Frederick Prime, 



S. P. Sadtler. 



Curators. 



J. Cheston ^[orris, Benjamin Smith Lyman, Henry Pettit. 



