134 MINUTES. [Oct. 6, 



inviting the attendance of the Society during the Exposition 

 of 1900 at a Congress for the Study of Popular Traditions, 

 and enclosing the proposed programme of proceedings. On 

 motion it was resolved that the President be requested to ap- 

 point a delegate to represent the Society in the Congress. 



A letter from Mr. A. Eadcliffe Grote, in regard to a fossil 

 butterfly described by Dr. H. Eebel, of Vienna, which con- 

 firms Mr. Grote' s theories as to the Papilionides, and stating 

 that in consequence of Mr. Grote's papers published in the 

 Proceedings of this Society, Dr. Rebel, in the edition of Dr. 

 Standinger's European catalogue, will retain the Papilionides 

 at the head of the system. 



The deaths of the following members of the Society were 

 announced : 



Daniel Garrison Brinton, M.D,, of Media, Pa,, at Atlantic 

 City, N. J., on July 31, 1899. 



Mr. Frank Thomson, of Philadelphia, on June 6, 1899. 



Sir William Henry Flower, K.C.B., F.R.S., of London, 

 England, aged 68 years, on July 1, 1899. 



Mr. William P. Tatham, of Philadelphia, aged 79 years, 

 at Atlantic City, N. J., on August 5, 1899. 



Prof, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen, of Heidelberg, 

 Germany, aged 89 years, on August 16, 1899, 



Hon. Charles P. Daly, of New York, aged 83 years, on 

 September 19, 1899. 



W. G, A. Bonwill, D.D.S,, of Philadelphia, on September 

 24, 1899. 



On motion of Mr. Prime, it was 



Resolved^ That the President be requested 1o appoint gentlemen 

 to prepare memoirs of Messrs, Daniel G. Brinton, M.D. , Frank 

 Thomson, William P. Tatham and W. G. A. Bonwill, D.D.S. 



The following papers were read : 



" Results Secured at Aransas Pass, Tex., by the Reaction 

 Breakwater," by Prof. Lewis M. Haupt. 



" Genealogical Trees of Butterflies," by A. Radcliffe Grote. 



" Gold in the Glacial Drift of the Adirondacks," by Mr. 

 Frederick Prime. 



