320 MINUTES. [Oct. 21, 



vestigations proposed at the meeting of the International Geological 

 Congress held at St. Petersburg, Russia, in August, 1897, and that 

 the President be requested to communicate to the Secretary of 

 State what had been done at the St. Petersburg Congress in respect 

 of establishing an international floating institute for the purposes 

 named in the action of that Congress, and to request the Secretary 

 of State to bring the subject to the attention of the proper commit- 

 tees of Congress. 



which resolution, on his motion, was referred to the Officers 

 and Council. 



The Librarian presented a list of the donations to the 

 Library, and called special attention to a valuable gift from 

 Mr. Henry Pettit, of five volumes of contemporaneous clip- 

 pings, illustrating the day-to-day history of the Hispano- 

 American War ; and of two volumes of V Illustration^ J^ljr 

 1870-July, 1871, being the numbers issued in Paris during 

 the Commune. 



Mr. Pettit, by invitation, made some interesting remarks in 

 connection with this donation. 



Announcement was made of the decease of Prof. Gabriel 

 de Mortillet, of St. Germain-en-Laye, France, who was 

 elected to membership on February 15, 1895. 



Prof. Albert H. Smyth read a paper on " Thomas Moore 

 in Philadelphia," which was discussed by Messrs. Dickson 

 and Wood. 



A paper by Dr. Daniel G. Brinton was presented on " Two 

 Unclassified Eecent Vocabularies from South America.'' 



Pending nominations for membership Nos. 1432, 1464, 

 1469, 1470, 1471, 1472, and ncAV nominations Nos. 1473 and 

 1474 were read. 



The rough minutes were read, and the Society was 

 adjourned b}^ the presiding officer. 



