PKOCE EDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



Hluf9 



HELI) AT PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XXXVIII. January, 1899. No. 159, 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



Stated Meeting, Jan nary ^, 1899 3 



A Note on William Penn's Commission for the Government of 

 Pennsylvania During His First Visit to England in 1684. B}- I. 



Minis Hays, M. D. (with two plates) 4 



Stated Meeting^ January 20. 1899 7 



Specializations of the Lepidopterous Wing ; Parnassi-Papilionidcf. 



Part I. By A. Kadcliffe Grote, A.M 7 



Stated Aleeting, tehruary 3, 1899 ■. 21 



Stated Meeting, February 17, 1899 22 



Stated Meeting, March 3, 1899 23 



Stated Meeting, March 17, 1899 23 



Stated Meeting, April 7, 1899 24 



Specializations of the Lepidopterous Wing; theParnassi-Papilionidae. 



Part II. By A. Radcliffe Grote, A.M. (with three plates) 25 



Chairman's Annual Discourse for 1899, on the Transmission of En- 

 ergy by Electricity. By Coleman Sellers, E.D., Vice-Presi- 

 dent 49 



Stated Meeting. April 21, 1899 71 



Stated Meeting, May 5, 1899 74 



Divisions of North Australian Tribes. By R. H. Mathews, L.S. . . 75 

 On an Interesting Fragment of the "Book of the Dead." By Ru- 

 dolph BuTi, Ph.D 79 



Calendar of the Correspondence of Brigadier-General George 

 Weedon, U. S. A., with Celebrated Characters of the American 



Revolution 81 



Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Henry Lee and Arthur 



Lee 114 



Stated Meeting, May 19, 1899 131 



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