New York; N. J. Hist. Society ; Franklin Institute; Jour. 
of Pharmacy ; News and Library; Penn Monthly; Mr. T. 
Meehan; U.S. Weather Bureau; Botanical Gazette, Hano- 
ver, Ind.; B. 8. Lyman, Tokei; and Prof..A. Liversidge, ot 
Sydney, N.S. W. 
The death of Prof. Dr. Frederick August Tholuck, at 
Halle an der Saale, June 10, aged 78 years, was'announced, 
with remarks by the Secretaries. 
The death of W. Timothy Abbot Conrad, in 'Trenton, N. 
J., August 8, aged 73 years, was announced, with remarks 
by Prof. Cope. 
Dr. Genth read his eleventh contribution from the Labora- 
tory of the University of Pennsylvania, entitled ‘On Some 
Tellurium and Vanadium Minerals; by F. A. Genth.” 
Prof. Cope exhibited and described some recently discov- 
ered fossils, one of which was a cast of a gar-pike, of sup- 
posed late tertiary date, to which he assigned the provi- 
sional name, Clastes cuneatus—a possible link between the 
extinct and living genera of that family. 
He communicated also a paper, entitled “On some new 
or little known Reptiles and Fishes of the Cretaceous, No. 
3, of Kansas, by E. D. Cope.” 
Mr. Briggs added some points to his previous paper on 
the Vena contracta, and made some remarks on the omis- 
sion from .text-books of the elementary fact that, whereas 
an unsystematically balanced fly-wheel runs steadily and 
without injury to its housings so long as its rate of rotation 
suffers no change, the contrary is the case when its rate is 
retarded or accelerated. 
The minutes of the last meeting of the Board of Officers 
and Members in Council were read, and it was then, on mo- 
tion, 
Resolved, That the thirteen applications for the premium for a coal-dirt 
burning apparatus offered by the Society, thus far received, be referred to 
the Committee considering the award of the premium ; and that the Com- 
mittee be requested to prepare a proper form of advertisement in accord- 
ance with a recent resolution of the Society. 
On motion it was ordered that the name of the Daven. 
PROC. AMER. PHILOS. soc. xvil. 100. B. PRINTED JAN. 8, 1878, 
