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especially invited to do so by the Society or the Executive Board." The 

 motion was seconded by Mr. Skinner. 



There being objection to the passage of this amendment without lying- 

 over for one month, on the ground of its embodying a nev\ r proposition Dr. 

 Dun withdrew his motion with the consent of his second. 



The original amendment to the By-Laws was then unanimously adopted. 



Dr. Dun then offered the amendment as above written, and it was laid 

 over for action at the next meeting. 



The Society then went into an election of officers, to serve for one year. 

 The following persons were elected to fill the offices set down opposite their 

 names : 



President, ..... Dr. J. H. Hunt. 

 First Yice-President, . . . Prof. Geo. W. Harper. 

 Second Yice-President, . . J. B. Skinner. 

 Secretary, . . . . . Davis L. James. 

 Treasurer, . . . . . S. E. Wright. 



CURATORS. 



Paleontology, . . . E. M. Cooper. 



Botany, ...... Miss Sarah C. Stubbs. 



Ornithology, .... Wm. Hubbell Fisher. 



Icthyology, Dr. D. S. Young. 



Anthropology; .... Dr. W. A. Dun. 



Comparative Anatomy, . . . Dr. A. J. Howe. 



Herpetology, . . . . A. E. Heighway, Jr. 



Mineralogy, J. W. Hall, Jr. 



Conchology, . . . . Mrs. M. C. Moorehead. 



Entomology, . . • . . Charles Dury. 



Members at large of the Executive Board : Col. J. W. Abert, Dr. W. A. 

 Dun, A. P. Morgan, E. M. Cooper. 



Trustee for two years : Julius Dexter, Esq. 



Donations were received as follows : 



From the U. S. Fish Commission, Beports for 1872-3, '79-80 ; from Ottawa 

 Field Naturalist's Club, Transactions No. 4, 1882-3 ; from Davis L. James, 

 Annual Beport Bochester Society of Natural History, Dec. 1883 ; from 

 Bureau of Education, Washington, Circular of Information No. 3, 1883 ; 

 from Chief Signal Service Officer, Weather Beview, January, 1883 ; from 

 Theodore Gill, Washington, D. C, Principles Zoogeography; from Dr. E. 

 G. Betty, Portrait of J ohn L. Talbott ; from Secretary of the American 

 Institute of Mining Engineers, Proceedings of Annual Meeting, Cincin- 



