

PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



HELD AT PI1ILADELPHI\ FOR PROMOTING USEFUL RNOWIEDGE. 



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



Stated Meeting, January 6, 1899. 



Vice-President Sellers in the Cliair. 



Present, 16 members. 



Acknowledgments of election to and acceptance of mem- 

 bershii) Averu read from Messrs. Edward P. Crowell, Henry S. 

 Pancc St, Edward H. Keiser, Ernest W. Brown, Francis 

 EawL Paul Leicester Ford and Charles M. Hall. 



Th decease of Prof. Ezra Otis Kendall, at PhiladeljDhia, 

 on J. luarj 5, 1899, was announced and it Avas ordered that 

 the President be requested to appoint a member to prepare 

 an obituary notice of the late Vice-President of the Society. 



The Judges of the annual election for Officers and Coun- 

 cillors held this day between the hours of two and five in the 

 afternoon reported that the following-named persons were 

 elected according to the laws, regulations and ordinances of 

 the Society to the offices for the ensuing year: 



President. 



Frederick Fraley. 



Vice - Pres idents . 



Coleman Sellers, Isaac J. Wistar, George F. Barker. 



Secretaries. 



I. Minis Hays, Frederick Prime, Samuel P. Sadtler, 



Richard A. Cleemann. 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXXVIII. 159. A. PRINTED JUNE 17, 1899. 



