^^O [:SIay 20, 1S87. 



Notice having been given to the members that tlie Society 

 would take a final action upon the question of the sale of the 

 French Rentes^ constituting the Michaux legacy, the same was- 

 taken up as the stated business of the meeting and considered, 

 and the resolution passed at the last stated meeting of the 

 Society was again put to the vote and unanimously adopted. 



This being the stated meeting for balloting for members an 

 election was gone into, and after scrutiny, by the tellers, of the 

 votes given, the following were declared to have been duly 

 elected members of the Society : 



No. 2136. Mr. Joseph S. Harris, Philadelphia. 

 No. 2137. Dr. WiUiam Powell Wilson, Philadelphia. 

 No. 2138. Dr. James Tyson, Philadelphia. 

 No. 2139. Mr. William Henry Rawle, Philadelphia. 

 No. 2140. Mr. Henry D. Wireman, Philadelphia. 

 ' No. 2141. Prof. Albert H. Smyth, Philadelphia. 

 No. 2142. Miss Helen C. de S. Abbott, Philadelphia. 

 No. 2143. Mr. Henry H. Houston, Philadelphia. 

 No. 2144. Prof. William T. Barnard, Baltimore. 



Pendino- nominations Nos. 1156, 1159 and 1164 were on 

 motion deferred until the next reoular meeting for the ballot- 

 ing for candidates. 



Pending nomination No. 1169 and new nomination No. 

 1170 were read. 



A paper was presented, through the Secretaries, by Prof. 

 John J. Stevenson, " Notes on the Surface Geology of South- 

 west Virginia." 



A letter was read from Dr. Frazer in reference to the dis- 

 charge, at the last meeting, of the committee appointed April 

 1st, asking that "the action of the Society be recalled." 



Dr. J. Cheston Morris moved "that the resolution of the 

 Society adopted at the last meeting discharging the said com- 

 mittee be reconsidered." 



The motion was seconded and after discussion being put to 

 a vote, the yeas were 15 and nays 20, and the Society refused 

 to reconsider the said motion. 



And the Society was adjourned by the President. 



