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Dr. Bashford Dean exhibited drawings of original restora- 
tions of Dipterus valenciennesi 8S. & M. and Celacanthus ele- 
gans Newb. 
Dr. J. L. Wortman exhibited an almost entire skeleton of 
Patriofelis, recently acquired by the American Museum of 
Natural History, and discussed its probable relationships. From 
structural characters of limbs he regards this Creodont as near- 
est the ancestral form of the seals. Its spreading digits appear 
to have been webbed, and its coprolites show that its food in- 
cluded turtles. 
Dr. A. A. Julien read a paper on a newly-discovered fossil 
fungus in silicified wood from the petrified forest near Cairo, 
Egypt, probably of the genus Peronosporites. 
Professor Osborn showed a water color restoration of a Mio- 
cene landscape, including characteristic animals and plants of 
the western lake basins. 
REGULAR BusINESS MEETING. 
February 5th, 1894. 
No quorum present. 
STATED MEETING. 
February 12th, 1894. 
Vice-President Ossorn in the chair and eighteen persons 
present. 
A letter was received from Mr. M. Huss, of Brooklyn, N. Y.., 
calling the attention of the Academy to the coming celebration 
of the sixtieth birthday of Prof. Ernest Haeckel, to be held at 
Jena, Germany, on February 17th. 
Prof. Geo. 8. Huntington, Prof. E. B. Wilson, Mr. C. F. Cox, 
Prof. N. L. Britton and Prof. H. F. Osborn were appointed a 
committee to prepare an address of congratulation and forward 
it to Jena. 
