:9ii.J MINUTES. V 



From the Verein fiir Xatnrkundc zn Casscl. to be represenlod 



at the 75th anniversary of its founding, on April 23, 191 1. 

 From the Societe de Ronbaix. to be represented at the 30th 

 Congres National des Societes Frani;aises de (leographie to 

 be opened at Ronbaix on July 29, 191 1. 

 The decease was announced of : 

 Benjamin Chew Tilghman, at Philadelphia, on March 6, 191 1, 



set. 49. 

 Heber S. Thompson, at I'ottsville. Pa., on March 9, 1911, let. 70. 

 Henrv Pickering IJowditch, AI.l)., at Jamaica Plain, Mass., on 



March 13, 191 1, aet. 71. 

 Samuel Frankdin bjinnon-, at Washington, on March 28, 1911, 

 :et. 70. 

 Rear-Admiral (jeorgc W. .Melville read a pai)er on " \ Century 

 of Steam Navigation," which was discussed by Mr. Willcox, Prof. 

 Doolittle and Mr. Jayne. 



^Jr. Joseph Willcox offered >ome remarks on " Ixcmains uf 

 Glvptodon found in hdorida." and also on " Teeth of Zeuglodou froiTB 

 Wilmington. N. C." 



General Meeting, April 20, 21, and 22, igi i. 



Thursday, April 20. ( )pening Session — 2 o'clock. 



Wii.iJAM W. Kkkx, M.l).. LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



The decease was announced of : 

 Charles A. Oliver, !M.D., at Philadelphia, on April 8, 191 1, 



set. 56. 

 Henry Pemberton, at I'hiladelphia, on April 11, 191 1, xi. 84. 

 The following papers were read : 

 "Notes on Cannon: Fourteenth and h^ifteenth Centuries," by 



Charles E. Dana, Philadelphia ; discussed by Dr. Keen. 

 "Rise in the Cost of Fiving in the Twelfth Century and its 



Fffects," by Dana C. Munro. Professor of European History, 



L'niversity of Wisconsin. 

 " Elizabethan Physicians,"" by Felix E. Schelling, Professor of 



English Literature, Cniversitv uf Penns\lvania. 



