﻿April, 1857.] 



ELLIOTT SOCIETY, 



105 



Dr. Wm. H. Ford was elected a member. 

 The following appointments were, with the consent of the 

 Meeting, made by the President: 



Prof. Francis S. Holmes, Corresponding Secretary pro tern. 

 W. H. Wright, Esq., Recording " " 



In the absence of Dr. Francis T. Miles, Treasurer, Robert 

 Hume, Esq., was appointed by the President to fill the tem- 

 porary vacancy thus caused. 



The Committee of Curators, to whom was referred the 

 paper of Prof. Lewis R. Gibbes, on the Accentuation of Names 

 in Natural History, report, that this paper is likely to be of 

 great usefulness in America, where many engaged in the pur- 

 suit of Natural History are unacquainted with the Latin and 

 Greek languages. The Committee, therefore, recommend that 

 it be published in a small and portable form, as a Manual, and 

 so placed within the reach of every student, however limited 

 his means, 



APRIL 15th, 1857, 



Dr. L. A Frampton, in the chair. 



Prof. McCrady introduced the following paper : 



Gymnopthalmata of Charleston Harbor. By John McCrady, 



No class of the Animal Kingdom, perhaps, presents more or 

 stronger attractions than that of Acalephse. To the lover of what 

 is beautiful, they exhibit a variety of forms unsurpassed in deli- 

 cacy, grace, and harmony of color, by even the fairest flowers; to 

 the physiologist they exhibit the functions of life, performed by 

 structures of the most wonderful simplicity; and to the philosopher 

 their development produces problems as marvellous to the fancy as 

 they are essentially important to the processes of generalization. 

 It is then, perhaps, due to the many obscure passages in their 

 history, as well as to the small number of sea-side Naturalists, that 



