216 MINUTES. [May 13, 



Adjourned Stated Meeting^ May 13^ 1897. 



The Treasurer, Mr. Price, in tlie Chair. 



Present, 19 members. 



The following papers were read : 



" On the Geology of the Paleozoic Area of Arkansas South 

 of the Novaculite Region," by George PI. Ashley, Ph.D., 

 with an Introduction by John C. Branner, was read by title. 



" Stellar Dynamics," by Mr. Luigi D'Auria. 



A letter was read from the Biological Faculty of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, asking the Society to appoint a 

 representative of this Society to make provision for a meeting 

 memorial of the late Prof. E. D. Cope, and the President of 

 the Society was requested to appoint such a representative. 



Prof. Doolittle moved " that a Committee of five, consisting 

 of Dr. Pepper, Hon. George F. Edmunds, Dr. Persifor 

 Frazer, Dr. T. Hewson Bache and Hon. H. A. DuPont be 

 appointed to consider and report to the American Philosophi- 

 cal Society on the matter of a Franklin Memorial to celebrate 

 the Bicentennial Anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth^ 

 in 1906." Adopted. 



A letter from the Academ^^ of N'atural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia requesting the deposit Avith it of the various Her- 

 baria in the possession of this Society, was laid before the 

 Society In connection therewith the Curators offered the 

 following report : 



The Curators recommend that they be authorized to deposit with^ 

 and take receipt from, the Academy of Natural Sciences, the botanical 

 collection of Lewis & Clarke, the Short and Muhlenberg, the Herba- 

 rium Americanum, and such other botanical collections now in the 

 Society's possession, on the condition named in the letter from the 

 Curators of the Academy, that they be kept as separate collections in 

 the Herbarium of the Academy, properly cared for and returned on 

 demand. 



The recommendation of the Curators Avas adopted. 



The Society was then adjourned by the presiding officer. 



