MINUTES OF MRETINGS. 



November 7, 1907. — Regular monthly meeting, with the 

 President, T. Chalkley Palmer, in the chair. Reading of 

 Minutes and Reports of Officers and Curators. Arthur N. 

 Pusey, of Media, was elected to membership. Miss Anne 

 Knapp Whitney presented to the Institute a scrap book of 

 Japanese papers, letters, etc. , collected by our deceased member, 

 Jacob B. Brown, during his foreign travels. William M. 

 Parker, of Springfield, presented to the museum a " hair ball " 

 taken from the stomach of a cow. The question of its mode 

 of formation was discussed by Dr. Underhill, Charles Potts, 

 C. M. Broomall and others. A description of this specimen 

 was published in the Proceedings, Volume III, Number ]. 

 T. Chalkley Palmer presented a specimen of tourmaline in 

 quartz, from a quarry near Morgan Station, on Chester Creek, 

 exhibiting ' ' slickensides. ' ' 



The announcement of the death of Dr. L,innaeus Fussell, 

 Secretary of the Institute, on October 28th, 1907, was made. 

 Dr. Trimble Pratt and T. Chalkley Palmer were appointed a 

 committee to prepare a minute expressing the profound regret 

 of the Institute. A biographical sketch of Dr. Fussell appears 

 in this issue of the Proceedings. 



Under the head of scientific business, attention was called 

 to a recent U. S. Geological Report, wherein it was stated 

 that a veiy pure form of titanium was to be found in Chester 

 County, Pa. The occurrence and use of titanium were dis- 

 cussed by James G. V^ail, Charles Potts and T. Chalkley 

 Palmer. C. M. Broomall gave an account of a long series of 

 experiments on flower pigments pointing toward certain inter- 

 esting physiological conclusions. A detailed account of these 

 will be given in a subsequent number of the Proceedings. 

 Attention was called to the very scanty chestnut crop of this 

 year as a fact worthy of record in the minutes. An experi- 

 ment was reported in which a fresh egg yolk, after immersion 

 in alcohol for some weeks, was found to have assumed the 



