344 (Jan. 4, 1884, 
He exhibited also a quartz pebble, with coal adhering to 
its sides, about the size of a goose egg, found in the floor of Mr. 
Mansfield’s Cannel coal bed, at his mines near Cannelton, in 
Beaver county, Pennsylvania. Four such had been found at 
different times in the progress of mining this bed. Similar 
finds have been made in other coal fields in America and 
in Hurope. One very large rock of limestone in the body of 
a coal bed in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, was reported by 
Prof. J. J. Stevenson. Such events could only have taken 
place beneath very slowly running water bearing along upland 
trees with stones attached to their roots, and drop ying these 
stones one by one into the marsh vegetation t through which 
the water moved. 
Mr. Lesley communicated a note, or suggestion, in mytho- 
logical studies, respecting the original meaning of the animal 
ideograph of the god Set. 
Dr. Brinton, Mr. Phillips and Mr. Lesley were appointed ¢ 
Committee to examine the Mexican manuscripts belonging to 
the Society, now on deposit with the Academy of Natural 
Sciences of Philade mr to report on the propriety of prepar- 
ing any of them for publication, and with power to reclaim the 
same. 
Mr. Lesley was nominated Librarian. 
The Report of the Judges of the Annual Hlection was read, 
by which the following officers were declared duly elected for 
the ensuing year, 1884: 
President, 
Frederick Fraley. 
Vice- Presidents, 
Eli K. Price, EH. Otis Kendall, Pliny H. Chase. 
Secretaries, 
Geo. F. Barker, Daniel G. Brinton, Henry Phillips, Jr., 
J. Pi Lesley: 
Counsellors for three years, 
Daniel G. Goodwin, W.S. W. Ruschenberger, Henry Winsor, 
Wm. A. Incham. 
Curators, 
Geo. H. Horn, Charles H. Ames, Philip H. Law. 
Treasurer, 
J. Sergeant Price. 
And the meeting was adjourned. 
