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hereby recognize and express our high appreciation of his many private vir- 
tues and public services. 
Resolved, That these resolutions be spread on the records of the Academy 
and published in the proceedings. 
Reevrar Meretina, December 20TH, 1876. 
Vice-President Edwards in the Chair. 
Thirty-five members present. 
Donations to the Museum were as follows: Thirty-three spec-. 
imens of Scorpions from Arizona, from Dr. R. K. Nuttall; also 
from same donor, one crustacean and one sceloporus. F. Gruber 
presented a fine specimen of Cervus Mexicanus, mounted; Rhaph- 
idophora subterranea from Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. 
The Nominating Committee appointed by the Council and 
Trustees presented their report, nominating officers for 1876, as 
follows: 
PRESIDENT, 
GEORGE DAVIDSON. 
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT. RECORDING SECRETARY, 
HENRY EDWARDS. CHAS. G. YALE. 
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT. TREASURER. 
H. W. HARKNESS. ED. F. HALL, Jr. 
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, LIBRARIAN. 
THEO. A. BLAKE. WM. J. FISHER. 
DIRECTOR OF MUSEUM. 
W. G. W. HARFORD. 
TRUSTEES. 
D. D. COLTON, R. E. C. STEARNS, 
GEORGE DAVIDSON, WM. ASHBURNER. 
THOS. P. MADDEN, GEO. E. GRAY, 
R. C. HARRISON. 
