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*LopHODYTES crcuLLATus, Gmel. 



Not before recorded from the Territory, though its occarrence was to have 

 been anticipated. (Cf. Prodrome, p. 63.) 



PoDiCEPs coRxuTus, Gmel. 



Jan. 28th. 

 Mr. Cassin, Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 Thirty-one members present. 



The following gentlemen were transferred from the list of members 

 to that of correspondents: Jos. Jones, M.D. ; W. F. •Reynolds, U. S. 

 Top. Eng. 



I)r. Allen's resignation as Corresponding Secretary was read and 

 accepted. 



The following Committees were elected for 1868 : 



Ethnology. — J. Aitken Meigs, S. S. Haldeman, F. V. Hayden. 



Entomology and Crustacea. — John L. Le Conte, J. H. B. Bland, 

 Try on Reakirt. 



Comparative Anatomy and General Zoology. — Joseph Leidy, Har- 

 rison Allen, S. B. Howell. 



Ornithology. — John Cassin, Spencer F. Baird, B. A. Hoopes. 



Mammalogy. — Harrison Allen, E. D. Cope, John Cassin. 



Concholoyy. — Geo. W. Tryon, Jr., Rev. E. R. Beadle, C. F. Parker, 



Herpetology and Icthyology. — Edward D. Cope, S. Wier Mitchell, 

 Chas. Shaefl'er. 



Geology. — Isaac Lea, F. V. Hayden, T. A. Conrad. 



Physics. — Robt. Bridges, R. E. Rogers, Jacob Ennis. 



Library. — Jos. Leidy, John Cassin, Robert Bridges. 



Botany. — Elias Durand, Aubrey H. Smith, Elias Diffenbaugh. 



Mineralogy. — Wm. S. Vaux, S. R. Roberts, Jos. Willcox. 



Palceontology. — T. A. Conrad, Jos. Leidy, "\Vm. M. Gabb. 



Proceedings. — Joseph Leidy, Wm. S. Vaux, John Cassin, Robt. 

 Bridges, Geo. W. Tryon, Jr. 



Prof Edw. D. Cope was elected Corresponding Secretary. 



Feb. 4th. 



The President, Dr. Hays, in the Chair. 



Forty-one members present. 



E. D. Cope made some diservations on the living inhabitants of caves in 

 south-westera Virginia. He said he had examined some fifteen, which were 

 not generally known ; one of them, Spruce Run Cave, in Giles county, for a 



1868.] 



