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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



HELD AT PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XXX [II. July to December, 1894. No. 146. 



Stated Meeting^ September 7, 1894.. 

 President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



The death of Lord Coleridge, Chief Justice of England, was 

 announced. 



Mr. Lyman read the following correction of a statement 

 made by Dr. Frazer in the last number of the Proceedings : 



"In the last issue of the Proceedings, Vol. xxxiii, p. 216, for our last 

 meeting, May 18, 1894, Dr. Persifor Frazer makes public a wholly mis- 

 taken impression in regard to my position and influence in the State Geo- 

 logical Survey. So far from being its ' quasi director,' I have never even 

 had the honor of being strictly speaking a regularly employed, salaried 

 Assistant Geologist of the Survey, but have only done contract-work for 

 it ; and have never had anything whatever to do directly or indirectly, 

 by authority or by advice, in responsibility or in consultation, with the 

 management or control of any part of the work of the Survey, except my 

 own. 



"In writing out his remarks, he must have believed he had uttered 

 them essentially as they are printed ; but anything in the least like so in- 

 exact a statement in that matter would have been corrected at once. 



"Benj. Smith Lyman." 



Mr. Prime spoke of the gold regions of South Africa. 

 Pending nominations 1273, 1274, 1276 to 1301 (inclusive) 

 were read. 



And the Society was adjourned by the President. 



PKOC. AMKR. PHILOS. SOC. XXXIII. 146. 2h. PRINTED NOV. 19, 1894. 



