PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



BEIB AT PnilADELPlIlA FOR PROIIOTISG I'SEPUl KNOWLEDGE. 



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YoL. XXXYI. ' May, 1897. No. 155. 



Stated Meeting, February 19, 1897. 

 The Treasurer, J. Seegeant Price, in the Chair. 



Present, 23 members. 



Correspondence was sabmitted and letters of envoy and 

 accessions to the library were reported. 



A bronze medal, commemorative of its Sesqui-centennial, 

 was presented by Princeton University, for Avhich the thanks 

 of the Societ}^ were given. 



The following deaths of members were announced : 



Dr. Henry Hartshorne, of Philadelphia, at Tokio, Japan, 

 on February 10, 1897, set. 73. 



Hon. J. Kandolph Tucker, of Lexington, Ya., on February 

 13, 1897, ret. 73. 



Prof. Henry D. Gregory, of Philadelphia, on Februarv 14, 

 1897, ait. 77.' 



The stated business of the meeting being the election of 

 members, the nominations were spoken to, and the ballots 

 cast, Secretaries Hays and Prime acting as Tellers. 



Prof Cope presented a " Communication on Some Pale- 

 ozoic Vertebrata from the Middle States." 



A communication was laid before the Society, consisting of 

 a sketch of an act to be presented to the Legislature of Penn- 

 sylvania setting apart three areas of -40,000 acres each on the 

 water sheds of the Delaware, Susquehanna, and Ohio, for a 

 State Forestry Keservation. 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXXVI. 155. K. PRINTED JUNE 15, 1897. 



