1887.] -^"1 



Pending nominations Nos, 1154-59, and new nominations 

 Nos. 1160-66, were read. 



Dr. D. G. Brinton otYered the following resolution: "That 

 after action on the candidates now proposed for membership, 

 the resident members shall be limited to 150 persons." 



Dr. Frazer offered as an amendment : " That a Committee 

 of scrutineers be elected as a permanent committee of the 

 Society, of which the duty shall be to examine the qualifica- 

 tions of all candidates for membership and report upon the 

 same to the Society, and no vote shall be taken on candidates 

 by the Society, until the presentation of a report on their 

 qualifications by the scrutineers." 



At the suggestion of the President, the motions were with- 

 drawn, and Dr. Brinton offered the following substitute, which 

 was unanimously adopted : " Resolved that the President be 

 authorized to appoint at his leisure a committee of five mem- 

 bers to consider these resolutions and the whole subject of the 

 restriction of membership in the Society, and to report its action 

 to the Society.* 



Prof Barker stated that he had received from Prof. G. A. 

 Hirn, of Colmar, a letter accepting membership in the Society, 

 and thanking it for the honor conferred. 



And the Society was adjourned by the President. 



Stated Meeting^ April 15, 1887. 



Present, 15 members. 



Mr. Thomas H. Dudley in the Chair. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : A circular from 

 the Academic des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres, Dijon, 

 announcing the awarding of prizes. 



Envoys from the Physikalische Central Observatorium, St. 

 Petersburg; K. Preuss. Geologische Landesanstalt u. Berga- 



*0n April 4. the President appointed Dr. D. G. Brinton, Chairman ; Dr. Frazer, Dr. Wm. 

 Thomson, Dr. Goodwin and Mr. Ingham as the committee. 



TROC. AMEE. THILOS. SOC. XXIV. 125. Z. PRINTED .TUNE 7, 1887. 



