1887.] 4:l0 



Sciences, Boston ; H. W. Conn, Middleton, Conn.; New York 

 Academy of Sciences ; Irish. Benevolent Union of the United 

 States, Rev. Charles G, Ames, Dr. Frazer, Martin I. J. Griffin, 

 Philadelphia; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore ; Univer- 

 sity of California, Sacramento. 



Pursuant to appointment, Mr. Philip C. Garrett read an 

 obituary notice of the late Pliny Earle Chase, LL.D., a Vice- 

 President of the Society. 



This being the stated meeting for the balloting for candi- 

 dates for membership, an election was held and the following 

 persons were declared to have been duly elected members of 

 the Society : 



No. 2145. Prof. Guiscppe Menenghini, Pisa, Italy. 



No. 2146. Prof. Edgar F. Smith, Springfield, Ohio. 



A paper was presented, through Vice-President Buschenber- 

 ger, for the Proceedings, by Alfred B. Taylor, on " Ootonary 

 Numeration and its Application to a System of Weights and 

 Measures." 



Prof, Cope made some remarks on the " Phylogeny and Clas- 

 sification of the Artiodactyla ;" after which Dr. J, Cheston 

 Morris spoke of the remarkable resemblance between Devon- 

 shire sheep and goats; that both ewes and bucks had horns, 

 and like the goat they had more than one period of repro- 

 duction in the year ; that they seemed to be something be- 

 tween sheep and goats. 



The President reported that he had received and paid over 

 to the Treasurer the sum of $131.80, being the interest on the 

 Michaux legacy, due October 1, 1887, 



On motion of Prof. Snyder, the President was authorized to 

 appoint a committee of three members to inquire into the 

 scientific value of the newly invented language, VoIa2niJc, and 

 to report thereon to the Society. [The President subsequently 

 appointed Messrs. D. G. Brinton, Henry Phillips, Jr., and Mon- 

 roe B. Snyder as the Committee.] 



And the Society was adjourned by the President. 



