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[April 7, 



Italy; Society delle Scienze, Naples, Italy; Rassegna delle 

 Scienze Geologiche in Italia, Institut Internationale de 

 Statistique, Rome; R, Accadcmie delle Scienze, Turin; R. 

 Istitato Veneto, Venice, Italy; Institut de France, Paris; 

 Ilarleian Society, London, England ; Geological Survey of Can- 

 ada, Ottawa ; New England Historic Genealogical Society, 

 American Statistical Association, Boston, Mass.; Connecticut 

 Historical Society, Hartford ; Cornell University, Ithaca, 

 N. Y.; American Museum of Natural History, New York ; 

 Board of Directors of City Trusts, Engineers' Club, Messrs. 

 Henry Phillips, Jr., Herbert Welsh, Philadelphia ; Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, U. S. Fish Commission, Washington, 

 D. C; Academy of Science, St. Louis, Mo.; Lick Observatory, 

 Mount Hamilton, Cal.; Agricultural Experiment Stations, 

 Morgantown, W. Ya., Larami, Wyo.; Las Cruces, N. Mex., 

 Tucson, Ariz.; Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Argentine 

 Republic. 



Photographs for the Society's Album were received of Dr. 

 F. A. Genth and Prof. F. A. Genth, Jr., Philadelphia. 



The death of Isaac Burk (March 30, 1893, eet. 77) was an- 

 nounced. 



The Committee on Dr. Phillips' paper on "Gases" reported 

 it worthy of publication in the Transactions of the Society, 

 and was discharged. 



Pending nominations Nos. 1219, 1250, 1253, 1255, 1256 

 were read. 



Dr. Ryder presented for the Proceedings a paper entitled 

 " Energy as a Factor in Organic Evolution," 



Dr. Cope presented a paper by Thomas G. Gentry on " The 

 Higher Fungi of Philadelphia and its Neighborhood." 



Dr. Cope offered the following resolution: 



Resolved, That the Americfin Philosophical Society disapproves of the 

 terms of the bill, No. 163, presented by Mr. J. H. Fovv to the Legislature 

 of Pennsylvania, entitled "An act to proiiibit public exhibitions of men- 

 tal or physical deformiiies in certain public places," as opposed to the 

 interests of education and scientific research, and as injurious to the 



