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his name stricken from the roll, and reported to the Society by the Treas- 

 urer. 



On motion, Section 5, Chapter II, of the amendments was 

 indefinitely postponed. 



The amendments to Chapter VIII as to the Library and 

 the Librarian were referred to the Library Committee. 



Chapter IX, Section 3, was amended and carried as follows : 



Section 3. Tuoenty qualified voters present at any stated or special 

 meeting shall be a quorum, and be competent to elect members, dispose 

 of property, appropriate money, and award premiums ; but no property 

 shall be alienated or encumbered, except by the vole of three-fourths of 

 the qualified voters present, and given at two successive stated meetings. 

 For the transaction of the ordinary business, the reception and reference 

 of communications on literary, scientific or other subjects, the members 

 present shall be deemed competent to act, and, in the absence of quali- 

 fied voters, shall form a quorum. 



Chapter VII, Section 7, was amended and carried as fol- 

 lows : 



Section 7. The President and Senior Secretary of the Society shall be, 

 ex-offlcio, the President and Clerk at their meetings ; and seven of their 

 number shall be a quorum. 



It was ordered that consideration of the above amendments 

 be made the stated business of the ensuing meeting, copies of 

 the amended regulations to be sent to the members with the 

 meeting notices, with notice that the same will then come up 

 for final adoption. 



Mr. Benjamin Smith Lyman read a paper on " Some Coal 

 Measure Sections near Peytona, West Virginia." 



Prof. Barker presented a paper entitled " The Atomic Mass 

 of Tungsten," by Prof. Edgar F. Smith and E. D. Desi ; also 

 one on " The Atomic Mass of Tungsten," by Prof. Edgar F. 

 Smith and Mary E. Pennington. 



Dr. Alfred C. Stokes presented (through the Secretaries) a 

 paper entitled, "Notices of Presumably Undescribed Infu- 

 soria." 



On motion of Dr. Greene, it was 



Resolved, A Committee of three be appointed to consider the expediency 

 of providing a light collation after each stated meeting of the Society, or 

 at stated intervals, in the Society's rooms, and that the Committee be 



