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collections and generous recognition of the work of others. Finally, he 
alluded to his remarkable independence and fortitude of character, and 
persistent devotion to science, even with limited resources. His death 
leaves a vacuum especially in the line of able and accurate criticism of 
contemporary work. Prof. OsBorn concluded by submitting the following 
resolution: 
The members of the New York Academy of Science desire to record 
their admiration of the noble services to sciences of the late Prof. Epwarp 
D. Core. Since 1859, when he offered his first contribution to the 
Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, at the age of nineteen, he has been a 
devoted and brilliant investigator in five great branches of Natural History, 
ichthyology, herpetology of the batrachians and reptiles, mammalian palae- 
ontology, historical geology and philosophy. In each he has long been 
an acknowledged leader, and his combined knowledge of all has given 
his researches a philosophical breadth, grasp and permanence, which place 
him among the great masters of comparative anatomy, Ovvier, OwENn 
and Huxtry. We deeply regret that his untimely death has cut short 
his life work, and feel that the loss of his keen critical and productive 
faculty deals a blow to the cause of comparative anatomy of the verte- 
brata throughout the world which can hardly be measured. We tender 
to the American Philosophical Society and to the Academy of Natural 
Sciences of Philadelphia, of which Prof. Corr was a life long member, 
an expression of our deep regret at their loss, and of our readiness to 
coöperate with them in the establishment of some suitable memorial. 
Signed Henry F. Ossorn. J. L. Worrmann, 
Mr. H. E. Crampton, Jr. gave a brief abstract of a paper by F, C. Baxrr 
on “Notes on Variations in the Apex of Gasteropod Molluscs”. 
Prof, Basurorp Dran and Mr. F. P. Summer reported on the spawning 
habits of Petromyzon Wilderi at Van Cortlandt Pond. 
Mr. H. E. Crampron, Jr. reported on some “Coalescence-Experiments 
with Lepidoptera“. 
A paper on the “Vertical Distribution of Plankton in Deep-Sea Col- 
lections from Puget Sound” by Prof. James I. Peck and Mr. N. R. Harrineron 
was read by title. Gary N. Carkıns, Secretary. 
