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dom of Him who, from the beginning, conceived, created and continually 
maintains the universe; to whom belongs all the glory, praise and honor 
of our feeble efforts forever. : 
“This idea of our dependence upon the Supreme Being your committee 
have very happily embodied in the motto which they have placed upon 
the medal: ‘ Non mutare Det leges, sed in hominum usum adhibere.’”? * 
On motion, the Society recommended that Prof. Haupt ac- 
cede to the request of Messrs. Bailey, Banks & Biddle for a 
temporary loan of this medal, it being, according to their state- 
ment, the finest they have ever made. 
The following communications were made for the Proceed- 
ings of the Society : 
By Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, “On the Classification and Nomen- 
clature of the Metalline Minerals.” 
By Dr. EK. D, Cope, “On the Ear Bones of the Permian Ba- 
trachia.” 
Dr. Alfred Dugés (Mexico) presented through the Secreta- 
ries a paper on “Deux Especes Nouvelles des Ophidiens de 
Mexique.” 
* Notr.—The Medal is of gold, oval in form, two and a quarter inches long by one and 
seyen-cighths wide. The inscription (in alto-relievo) on the obverse is : 
THE 
PREMIUM 
OF 
JOHN HYACINTH 
DE MAGELLAN, 
oF LONDON. 
Around the margin and separated from the panel by a heavy laurel wreath, is the 
motto prepared for the committee, which reads ‘‘ Non Dei leges mutare, sed in hominum 
usum adhibere.” 
On the reverse, 
AWARDED 
BY THE 
AMERICAN 
PHILOSOPHICAL 
SocIETY 
TO 
LEwis M. Haupt, 
for his discovery in 
Physical Hydrography 
and for his invention of 
a System of Harbor 
Improvement. 
Around the margin : 
Philadelphia, Pennsylyaniensis, 
December, MDCCCLXXXVII. 
