1895.] 165 



Prof. Cope read his paper on " Crania of Fossil Whalebone 

 Whales," as announced. 



Mr, Du Bois read a paper on the " Priority of the Manu- 

 facture of Extremely Thin Gold Leaf by Electrical Processes." 



Kemarks, corroborative of the tenor of the paper, were made 

 by Mr, Joseph Fraley, 



The Committee upon Mr, Lyman's Paper reported and was 

 continued. 



Pending nominations 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, and new nomi- 

 nations 1310, 1311, 1312, were read. 



And the Society was adjourned by the President, 



Stated Meeting, April 19, 1S95. 

 President, Mr, Fraley, in the Chair. 



Mr, Eichard S, Hunter, a newly elected member, was pre- 

 sented to the Chair, and took his seat. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



A circular letter from the Geographical Society of Toulouse, 

 France, requesting that the Society examine into the method 

 of applying the Decimal System parallel and simultaneously 

 to the measurement of angles and time. 



A letter was read from Philip P. Calvert, Secretary of the 

 Kyder Memorial Meeting, requesting the Society to appoint a 

 representative to the Committee of Publication of that meet- 

 ing. 



On motion, the President was requested to make the ap- 

 pointment. 



Prof, Cope was subsequently appointed. 



Letters were read from Mr. Dalton Dorr, Superinteudent of 

 the Pennsylvania Museum of Industrial Art, and Mr. F. D, 

 Langenheira, Curator of the Numismatic and Antiquarian 

 Society, requesting the Society to take the receipt of the 

 former institution for the Society's coins and medals deposited 



