1895.] 



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Selskab, Copenhagen, Denmark (144); Physikalische Gesell- 

 schaft, Berlin, Prussia (144, 145); Marquis Antonio di Gre- 

 gorio, Palermo, Italy (144) ; Bibliotheque Universitaire, Lyon, 

 Prance (145). 



Accessions to the Library were reported from the Academic 

 R. des Sciences, etc., de Denmark, Copenhagen; R. Statistika 

 Central Byran, Stockholm, Sweden; Section fllr Naturkunde 

 des O. T. C, Vienna, Austria; Naturforschende Gesellschaft, 

 Zurich, Switzerland ; Societa Toscana di Scienze Natural!, Pisa ; 

 Geological Society, R. Geographical Society, Editor of the Geo- 

 logical Magazine^ Royal Statistical Society, London, England ; 

 Amer. Institute of Electrical Engineers, Astor Library, New 

 York, N. Y. ; Board of Public Charities and Committee on 

 Lunacy, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania 

 Forestry Association, Mr. Samuel Wagner, Philadelphia ; Fish 

 Commission, U. S. Bureau of Education, Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, Bureau of the Mint, Washington, D. C. 



The stated business of the meeting being the election of 

 members, Secretaries Barker and Horn were appointed by the 

 President as Tellers. 



The President announced that he had reappointed the Stand- 

 ing Committees of 1894 to act in the current year. 



Mr. Price, from the Committee on the Henry M. Phillips 

 Prize Essay Fund, reported that a circular had been sent out 

 on May 1, 1893, setting forth the object of the foundation of 

 the Prize, and requesting that the essays to be written be 

 placed in the hands of the Society by January 1, 1895. That 

 before that date eight essays had been received by the Society, 

 all in conformity with the regulations adopted by the Com- 

 mittee. The Committee presents the names of the following 

 ten gentlemen as a "Committee of Judges," from whom five 

 names shall be selected by the Society : 



James C. Carter, D. C. Langdell, 



Edward J. Phelps, Francis Wayland, 



J. Randolph Tucker, William A. Keever, 



Courtland Parker, Henry Billings Brown, 



C. Stuart Patterson, W. Pinckney Whyte. 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXXIV. 147. B. PRINTED MARCH 8, 1895. 



