PROCEEDINGS. 43 



Total membership in the three Societies 329 



Membership in Philosophical Society 160 



" Anthropological Society 115 



" Biological Society 134 



Common to all 22 



" Philosophical and Anthropological Societies 32 



" Philosophical and Biological Societies 38 



Anthropological and Biological Societies 36 



Members of Philosophical Society only . 97 



" Anthropological Society only 61 



" Biological Society only 20 



The reports of the committee were discussed by Messrs. Wilson, 

 Bean, True, Riley, Kidder, Seaman, and Ellzey, a strong feeling of 

 opposition to any scheme of consolidation being manifest. The 

 motion of Prof. Riley, "Resolved, That it is the sense of this (in- 

 formal) meeting that a federation with the Anthropological and 

 Biological Societies is desirable," was carried by a vote of 22 to 8. 

 The first six articles of the report of the committee were provisionally 

 approved one by one, and the committee was continued, with instruc- 

 tions to report further action at a regular meeting of the Society. 



Thirtieth Meeting, May 12, 1882. 



DARWIN MEMORIAL MEETING. 



The President occupied the chair. In addition to the members 

 of the Society, the members of the other societies and their friends 

 had been invited to attend ; and although the night was stormy, 

 about seven hundred ladies and gentlemen were present to attend 

 the memorial service in honor of Charles Darwin, who died at 

 Down, Kent, England, April 19, 1882. On the stage sat, in addi- 

 tion to the officers of the Society, Dr. W. B. Taylor, President of 

 the Philosophical Society; Major J. W. Powell, President, Dr. 

 Robert Fletcher and Prof. O. T. Mason, Vice-Presidents, and Col. 

 F. A. Seely, Secretary, of the Anthropological Society. A large 

 portrait of Darwin, painted by Henry Ulke, V. P., and a bust, by 

 Mrs. Mica Heideman, decorated the stage. The order of exercises 

 was as follows : 



Introductory Theodore Gill. 



Biographical Sketch Wm. H. Dall. 



The Philosophic Bearings of Darwinism John W. Powell. 



