ilAi^ 29 1894 



Sept. 1, 1893.] ^'^ 



PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMEKICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



HELD AT PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XXXI. July to December, 1893. No. 142. 



Stated Meeting^ September i, 1893. 

 Prof. Albkrt H. Smyth in the Chair. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 

 Acknowledgments of election to membership were received 

 from 



Prof. Isaac H. Hall, New York. 



Gen. Isaac J. Wistar, Philadelphia. 



Mr. Edward Vincent d'Invilliers, Philadelphia. 



Prof. Waterman L. Hewitt, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Prof, Justin Winsor, Cambridge, Mass. 



Prof. William Hjde Appleton, Swarthmore, Pa. 



President James E. Rhoads, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 



An invitation from the New Haven Colony Historical 

 Society, New Haven, Conn., to be present at the dedication of 

 the new building erected as a memorial to James E. and Caro- 

 line A. English, to take place September 28, 1893, at 8 p.m. 



A circular from the Congres International de Zoologie, 

 Paris, relative to the prizes which will be awarded by the 

 Congres. 



A circular from the Anthropological Society of Washing-- 

 ton in regard to the Citizenship Prizes to be awarded for 

 essays on specified subjects. 



A letter from the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, requesting certain numbers of the Society's 

 Proceedings and Transactions to complete their set. 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXXI. 143. 2 D. PRINTED NOV. 15, 1893. 



