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April 2, 1908. — Regular Monthly Meeting. Usual rout- 

 ine business, reports of committees, officers and curators. 

 On motion the curators were authorized to erect steps at the 

 back of the building so as to provide the hall with another 

 exit. This being the meeting designated for the nomination 

 of officers, the following members were respectively put in 

 nomination : — 



President, T. Chalkley Palmer; 



First Vice President, Henry L. Broomall ; 



Second Vice President, Charles Potts ; 



Secretary, Dr. B. M. Underbill and Prof. L. H. Watters ; 



Treasurer, CM. Broomall ; 



Librarian, Henrietta K. Broomall ; 



Curators, Edgar T. Miller and Homer E. Hoopes. 

 Under the head of scientific communications report was made 

 of the occurrence of an aurora boreal is visible on the evenings 

 of the 26th and 27th of March. These displays were of short 

 duration and occurred about the same time on the respective 

 evenings. Dr. Pratt called attention to the recent rather 

 unusual occurrence of a thunder storn in winter prevailing off 

 and on all one day accompanied by an easterly wind. 



April 9, 1908. — Adjourned Meeting. Illustrated lecture, 

 " Consciousness in Micro-organisms," by John G. Rothermel, 

 of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia. 



April 16, 1908. — Adjourned Meeting. Lecture, "The 

 Meaning of Evolution," by Dr. Jesse H. Holmes, of Swarth- 

 more College. 



April 23, 1908. — Adjourned Meeting. Lecture, "My 

 Little People and Their Work," by E. L. Pratt, bee keeper, 

 of Swarthmore, illustrated with bees and appliances. 



