1887.] ^^'^ 



Communications were presented through the Secretaries as 

 follows : 



1. "OnBiela's Comet and the Large Meteors of November 

 27-30," by Prof. Daniel Kirkwood, Bloomington, Ind. 



2. '' Ou the Systematic Position of the Mallopliaga," by 

 Prof, A. S. Packard, Providence, R. I. 



3. " Preliminary Report on the Vertebrate Fossils of the 

 Uinta Formation Collected by the Princeton Expedition of 

 1886," by Profs. W. B. Scott and Henry F. Osborn, Princeton, 

 N.J. 



Dr. D. G. Brinton read a paper entitled " Were the Toltecs 

 an Historic Nationality?" 



Pending nominations Nos. 1156, 1159, 1164, 1169 and 1170 

 were read. 



The President reported that he had received and paid over 

 to the Treasurer $132.11, the July interest from the Michaux 

 legacy. 



Mr. Price offered the following resolutions, which were unani- 

 mously adopted : 



Resolved^ That J. Sergeant Price, Treasurer, be authorized 

 to assign and transfer unto the Board of Reconstruction Trus- 

 tees of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co., and The 

 Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Co., the loans of The 

 Schuylkill Navigation Co., belonging to the American Philo- 

 sophical Society and to the Trustees of the Building Fund of 

 the American Philosophical Society, in accordance with the 

 terms and conditions of the proposition of June 22, 1887. 



Resolved^ That the Treasurer be and he is hereby author- 

 ized to receive payment of one thousand dollars, of the loans 

 of the City of Philadelphia, now standing in the name of the 

 Society, and belonging to this Society, and maturing July 1, 

 1887. 



And the meeting was adjourned by the President. 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXIV. 12G. 2z. PRINTED DEC. 6, 1887. 



