]UN 6 1902 



PROCEEDINGS 



^.x^ERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



HELD AT PniLADELPIII\ FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XLI. January, 1902. No. 168. 



Stated Meeting^ January 3^ 1902. 



Curator Lyman in the Chair. 



Present, 6 members. 



Prof. Dana C. Munro, a newly elected member, was pre- 

 sented to the Chair, and took his seat in the Society. 



The list of donations to the Library was laid on the table 

 and thanks Avere ordered for them. 



The decease of Mr. Clarence King, at Phoenix, Ariz., on 

 December 24, 1901, aged 60 years, was announced. 



Prof. A. Kadcliffe Grrote presented a paper entitled " Re- 

 sults Obtained from a Search for the Type of Noctua Linn., 

 and Conclusions as to Types of Hubnerian Noctuid Genera 

 Represented in the North American Fauna." 



Prof. J. Dyneley Prince presented a paper entitled " A 

 Modem Delaware Tale." 



Messrs. Joseph Willcox, Joseph C. Fraley and Patterson 

 Du Bois, the Judges of the annual election for Officers and 

 Councillors, reported that the same had been held on this day, 

 between the hours of 2 and 5 in the afternoon, there being 

 present sixty duly qualified members, and that the following- 

 named persons were elected, according to the laws, regulations 

 and ordinances of the Society, to be the officers for the ensu- 

 ing year : 



