86 MINUTER OF MEETINGS. 



Specimens of Mexican Jumping Beans were exhibited. It 

 was stated that the movement of these beans is caused by the 

 larva of a moth which passes certain stages of its life therein. 

 One of the beans shown had been cut open, and the liberated 

 worm had spun a cocoon on the inside of the glass containing 

 vessel. On motion adjourned. 



December id, igo8. — Adjourned Meeting. Illustrated 

 lecture, "Stellar Photography," by Dr. John A. Miller, of 

 Swarthmore College. 



December 17, 1908. — Adjourned Meeting. Lecture, "The 

 Territorial Expansion of the Spanish Language," by Henry 

 L. Broomall. 



January 7, 1909. — Regular Monthly Meeting, President 

 T. Chalkley Palmer presiding. Reports of Curators and 

 Committees. Albert S. Barker, of Media, was elected to 

 membership. The usual current bills and miscellaneous bus- 

 iness were disposed of. President Palmer, who had just 

 returned from a trip abroad, exhibited a naturalist's collecting 

 " pond stick," which he had purchased in England. He also 

 presented a living specimen of a large lizard taken from a 

 cargo of logwood from Port de Paix. C. M. Broomall called 

 attention to the extreme northern declination of the moon at 

 this particular time. A general astronomical discussion fol- 

 lowed. On motion adjourned. 



January 14, 1909. — Adjourned Meeting. Lecture, 

 " Rabies," illustrated by microscopic specimens, by Dr. John 

 Reichel, of the Veterinary Department of the Univcrsit}' of 

 Pennsylvania. 



January 21, 1909. — Adjourned Meeting. Illuslratcd 

 lecture, "A Trip to Jamaica," by T. Chalkley Palmer. 



Janu.^ry 28, 1909. — Adjourned Meeting. Lecture, "Art 

 lulucation," by Clarence Preston Andrade, of the School of 

 Industrial Arts of Philadelphia. 



