X MINUTES. [April 23-25, 



The tellers reported that the following nominees had been elected 

 to membership : 



Residents of the United States. 



John J. Abel, M.D., Baltimore, Md. 



Edwin Plimpton Adams, Ph.D., Princeton, N. J. 



Walter Sydney Adams, Pasadena, Cal. 



John Merle Coulter, Ph.D., Chicago, 111. 



Whitman Cross, Ph.D., Washington, D. C. 



William J. Gies, M.D., New York City. , ' 



Phihp Bovier Hawk, Ph.D., Philadelphia. 



John Fillmore Hayford, Evanston, 111. 



Emory Richard Johnson, Sc.D., Philadelphia. 



John Anthony Miller, Ph.D., Swarthmore, Pa. 



Thomas Hunt Morgan, Ph.D., New York. 



William Fogg Osgood, Ph.D., Cambridge, Mass. 



Raymond Pearl, Ph.D., Orono, Me. 



Theobald Smith, M.D., Boston, Mass. 



John Zeleny, Ph.D., Minneapolis, Minn. 



Morning Session — lo o'clock. 

 William B. Scott, Sc.D., LL.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The following papers were read : 



" Opium in the Bible," by Paul Haupt, Ph.D., Professor of 

 Semitic Languages, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 



" Divisions of the Pleistocene of Europe and the Periods of the 

 Entrance of Human Races," by Henry Fairfield Osborn, 

 Sc.D., LL.D., Research Professor of Zoology, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, N. Y. 



" The Occurrence of Algse in Carbonaceous Deposits," by 

 Charles A. Davis, Ph.D., of U. S. Bureau of Mines. (In- 

 troduced by Prof. Marston T. Bogert.) Discussed by Profs. 

 Scott and B. M. Davis. 



"Additions to the Fauna of the Lower PHocene Snake Creek 

 Beds, Nebraska," by W. J. Sinclair, Ph.D., Curator of Verte- 

 brate Paleontology, Princeton University. (Introduced by 

 Prof. W. B. Scott.) Discussed by Prof. Scott. 



