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Halifax ; Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada ; Natural History 

 Society, Montreal, Canada ; Royal Society of Canada, Ottawa ; 

 Superintendent of City Trusts, Dr. D. G. Brinton, Mr. Henry 

 Phillips, Jr., Philadelphia ; Siemens and Halske Electric Com- 

 pany of America, Chicago, 111.; Observatorio N. Argentino, 

 Cordoba, Argentine Republic ; Mus6e de La Plata, Argentine 

 Republic. 



The President reported the appointment of Dr. Persifor 

 Frazer to prepare the obituary notice of the late Admiral 

 Macauley. 



Dr. J. Cheston Morris read a paper on " The Ethics of 

 Solomon," as illustrated by the Book of Ecclesiastes, with a 

 translation from the Septuagint. 



Pending nominations Nos. 1273, 1274, 1276 to 1303 inclu- 

 sive were read. 



The Committee appointed April 20, 1894, " to consider the 

 state of the Society," etc., made the following report. 



Philadelphia, Ootober 5, 1894. 



The Committee, appointed under the resolution adopted by 

 the American Philosophical Society, April 20, 1894, " to take 

 into consideration the state of the Society and to report whether 

 any, and if any, what measures it may be expedient to take for 

 increasing the resident membership of the Society, and promot- 

 ing its usefulness, and whether in effectuating these purposes it 

 may be necessary to amend the existing laws and regulations," 

 beg respectfully to report that they have carefully considered 

 the resolution and recommend that the following changes be 

 made in the laws of the Society as most likely to attain the 

 object of the resolution. 



1. They recommend that Chapter I of the laws be abolished, 

 which now stands as follows : 



CHAPTER I. 



OF THE MEMBERS, AND MANNER OF THEIR ELECTION. 



Section 1. The election of members shall be by ballot, and shall form 

 part of the stated business of the meetings on the third Fridays of Feb- 

 ruary, May, October and December. 



2. A member may, at any meeting, nominate in writing a candidate for 

 membership, and the nomination so made may, in like manner, be con- 



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