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change ; Fringilla chloris, Green Finch, from Algernon 

 Coolidge. 



Mr. Horace W. Adams and Mr. A. H. Blanchard were 

 elected Resident Members. 



May 21, 1851. 



The President in the Chair. 



Prof. Wyman announced to the Society the death of a 

 distinguished Corresponding Member, Dr. Samuel George 

 Morton, President of the Philadelphia Academy of Sci- 

 ences. He paid a just tribute to the scientific character 

 and attainments and moral worth of the deceased, and con- 

 cluded by offering the following resolutions : — 



Resolved, That this Society has learned with deep regret the 

 death of Dr. Samuel George Morton, of Philadelphia. 



Resolved, That in his death, Science has sustained the loss of 

 an ardent laborer in the cause, a true and faithful observer of 

 the " order of nature," and one who has exerted an influence 

 wide spread and beneficial on the progress of Science in our 

 country. 



Resolved, That we offer to the Academy of Sciences our sym- 

 pathy for the affliction which they have suffered in the loss of 

 their late President, who has so long and so earnestly identified 

 himself with their welfare and progress, and whose labors have 

 done so much to adorn the annals of the Academy and have 

 contributed so largely to the honor of American science. 



Resolved, That to the family of Dr. Morton we would tender 

 our deepest sympathy for the bereavement which they have sus- 

 tained in the death of one, who, with the adornments of a culti- 

 vated mind, combined so many traits of Christian excellence. 



The resolutions were seconded by Dr. C. T. Jackson 

 and sustained by the President, both gentlemen giving their 



