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The following minute of the meeting of Council was read : 

 Stated Meeting, February 10, 1893. 



Present : Messrs. Morris, Brinton, Baird, Ingham. 



In the absence of the President, on motion, Mr. Baird took the chair. 



Minutes of the last meeting of Council were read. 



Dr. Brinton, acting Clerk, read the resolution of the Society which was 

 referred to Council for action. 



Dr. Morris read the resolution of the Curators, and gave his reasons for 

 holding that the collections of the Society should be retained and exhi- 

 bited in its present hall. 



Mr. Ingham moved that all the collections of the Society be brought 

 back to the hall of the Society ; seconded by Dr. Morris. 



Dr. Brinton spoke strenuously in opposition to the motion, and claimed 

 that it was contrary to the spirit of the act incorporating the Society. 



Other remarks were made by the members present. Dr. Morris urging 

 the adoption of the motion as in accordance with the spirit of the Society. 



The motion being put by the Chair, it was carried. 



The Council was adjourned by the Chair at 9.30. 



D. G. Brinton, Glerk. 



Mr. Prime moved to lay the resolution of Council on the 

 table, but subsequently withdrew the motion in order that the 

 subject might be fully discussed. An animated debate ensued 

 participated in by Messrs, Houston, Prime, Brinton, Morris, 

 Cope, Jayne, Biddle, Du Bois, Barker, Field and others. 



The Presiding Member stated certain reasons that in his 

 opinion rendered the return of the collections at the present 

 time desirable. 



The question being put and a call of the yeas and nays 

 demanded, the motion was lost by a vote of 16 nays to 8 ayes. 



And the Society was adjourned by the Presiding Member. 



