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EB. D. Cope; Dr. D: Jayne; Mr: Henry Phillips, Jr.; the 
Wyoming Historical and Geological Society ; Johns Hopkins 
University ; Peabody Institute; United States Geographical 
and Geological Survey; Department of the Interior; Mr, Jed. 
Hotchkiss; Geological Survey of Kentucky, and the National 
Academy of Sciences in Cordova (Argentine Republic), 
Permission was granted to Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr., to have 
copies made of Schultze’s Arawak grammar and dictionary 
(MSS. owned by the Society), for the use of Mr. E. F. im 
Thurn, of Demerara, British Guiana. 
Thé Special Committee, appointed May 16 to have the 
paintings owned by the Society cleaned and put in good order, 
was ordered to ascertain the cost of photographing the same. 
The following new members were elected: 
Sir John Lubbock, LL.D., Westminster, London. 
H. Burnett Tylor, LL.D., Museum House, Oxford. 
Wm. W. Keen, M.D., Philadelphia. 
N. Archer Randolph, M.D., Philadelphia. 
Rev. HE. W. Syle, D.D., Philadelphia. 
Rev. H. Clay Trumbull, D.D., Philadelphia. 
New nominations, Nos. 1029, 1080, were read, and the meet- 
ing was adjourned. 
Correction of Minutes of January 18. 
Professor Cope remarked that the formation which forms the banks of 
the Rio Grande at Laredo, Texas, is in all probability the Laramie. It con- 
tains at that point a thick bed of pure lignite. Above Laredo, on both 
sides of the river, an excellent lignite is mined, The wide valley of the 
Rio Grande as far as the eastern ranges of the Sierra Madre is probably of 
Laramie age, as Dr, C. A. White reports fossil mollusca of that age from 
near Lampazas, at the foot of the mountains. Wm. Arthur Schott (U. 8. 
Mex. Bound. Survey I, Geology, p. 35) first observed these lignites, and 
Mr. Conrad pointed out the existence of Claiborne Eocene beds in the same 
region (loc. cit., p. 141). Professor Cope stated that the Claiborne beds 
rested immediately on the Laramie at Laredo. 
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