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sented a report, and offered the following resolutions, which 

 were adopted : 



Resolved, i. That Mr. Samuel Dickson be and he is hereby 

 authorized and requested to commence and prosecute in the proper 

 court proceedings in the name of the Society to the end of obtain- 

 ing a decree which will authorize this Society to offer premiums 

 not exceeding ^looo to be paid out of income for approved papers 

 which may be submitted to the Society under the provisions of 

 the foundation of John Hyacinth de Magellan established in the 

 year 1785, and that the President of the Society be and he hereby 

 is authorized and requested to sign and verify the papers necessary 

 to that end. 



Resolved, 2. That the Treasurer be and he is hereby directed, 

 under the advice of the Finance Committee, to invest the accumu- 

 lated savings by the Magellanic Fund, as will, with the present 

 investment of that fund, produce a clear income of $50 per year; 

 and that the whole of such income shall be kept and specially 

 invested to meet payments of premiums in respect of the Magel- 

 lanic foundation. 



Dr. Frazer exhibited specimens of flowers and scoriaceous 

 lava from the " P'lnch Bowl, ' ' a short distance from the city 

 of Honolulu, and sketched some of the geological features of 

 the Hawaiian group. 



Dr. Frazer also exhibited a reproduction, in cast iron made 

 in sand scraped from the rafters of Mr. Garretson's foundry 

 in Buffalo, of a bronze medal and pin, and compared it with 

 the cast-iron medal presented to some of the members of 

 the Seventh International Geological Congress by the pro- 

 prietors of the Kytchtym Iron Works in the Urals. 



Propositions for membership Nos. 1432, 1464:, 1469, 1470, 

 1471, 1472 and 1474 were read. 



Mr. Ingham, on behalf of the Committee on the Hall, 

 presented a report, together with the two following resolu- 

 tions, which were unanimously adopted : 



Resolved, That the Hall Committee are authorized at their dis- 

 cretion to sell for the best price attainable the houses bequeathed 

 to the Society by the will of the late Henry Phillips, Jr., and to 



