298 [Oct. 5, 
the Society as in its best judgment is deemed proper and neces- 
sary. 
““If I may be permitted to make a suggestion, it would be that 
this Endowment Fund and its purpose be entrusted to a special, 
permanent or standing committee of the Society, to perform such 
duties as the rules governing the committee may require. 
‘‘ With great respect, 
(Signed) CML PRUE, 
‘¢ PHILADELPHIA, October 1, 1888.”’ 
Mr. Vaux moved that the gift be accepted, which motion 
was carried by an unanimous vote. Mr. Vaux then handed 
to the President the: check of Miss Emily Phillips, to the 
order of the Society, for $5000, which the President accepted 
on behalf of the Society. 
On motion of Mr. Vaux, it was unanimously resolved, “That 
the subject be referred to a special committee of five members, 
to be appointed by the President at his leisure, who should 
report to the Society such rules and regulations as are best 
fitted to carry out the intentions of the donor.’* 
Accessions to the Library were announced from the Bata- 
viaasche Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen; Pulk- 
ova Observatorij; Physikalische Gesellschaft, Berlin; Garten- 
bauverein, Darmstadt; Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Freiberg, 
i. B.; Prof. G. D. E. Weyer, Kiel ; Physikalisch-Oekonomische 
Gesellschaft, Konigsberg; Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein, Re- 
geusburg; Mr. A. Wallis, Stockholm; Royal Meteorological, 
Zodlogical Societies, Meteorological Office, Society of Antiqua- 
ries, “ Nature,” London; Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth, Edinburgh ; 
Royal Society of Canada, Mr. Henry Mott, Montreal; Geologi- 
cal and Natural History Survey of Canada, Ottawa; “ Ameri- 
can Journal of Science,” New Haven; New York Shakespeare 
Society, “The Korum,” “ Literature,” “The Academe,” New 
* Henry M. Phillips was born at Philadelphia, on June 30, 1811; was elected a mem- 
ber of the American Philosophical Society on January 20, 1871, and died on August 29, 
188f. His obituary notice was read before the Society by Hon. Richard Vaux, on De- 
cember 18, 1884 (Proc. xxii, 72). 
