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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[ 1888 . 
The average attendance at the meetings has been about the same 
as last year. Communications, which have been interesting and 
varied, have been made by Messrs Leidy, Heilprin, Lewis, Meehan, 
Chapman, McCook, Koenig, Dolley, Ryder, Horn, Brooks, Dali, 
Rothrock, Binder, Willcox, Morris, Wilson, Kelly, Foote, Sharp, 
Meyer, Woolman, McKean, Robinson, Ford, Brinton, Redfield, U. 
C. Smith, Ives, Holstein and Le Boutillier. 
Eleven members and four correspondents have been elected. The 
deaths of thirteen members and two correspondents have been an¬ 
nounced and two members, Messrs C. L. Kilburn and Rev. Geo. 
D. Boardman, have resigned. 
The vacancy in the Council caused by the death of Mr. S. Fisher 
Corlies was filled June 26, by the election of Mr. Wm. W. Jefferis. 
The following extract from the will of the late Geo. W. Tryon Jr. 
was read at the meeting of Feb. 14,1888:—“I give to the Academy of 
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia my collection of shells now deposited 
with that society conditioned that they shall not be loaned or re¬ 
moved from the immediate custody of the said Academy and of its 
Conchological Section.” The bequest was accepted on the condition 
as stated. 
A bond of indemnity having been given Feb. 14 to the executors 
of the estate of the late Mary R. D. Smith, the Academy was placed 
in possession of the sum of $1201.49 the proportion of said estate 
bequeathed to the society by Miss Smith. 
The thanks of the Academy were voted to Dr. Charles Schaffer for 
his gift of $4939.58, the amount received by him as commissions 
while acting as. executor under the will of the late John Bryden to 
whose estate, in accordance with the wish of Dr. Schaffer, the gift 
has been credited. 
A like vote of thanks was tendered to Mr. Theodore D. Rand for 
the gift of $100.00, the amount received by him for professional 
services in connection with the same estate. 
The Academy having considered a deed of trust executed by Mrs. 
Emma W. Hayden for the endowment of the Hayden Geological 
Fund of Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars, in memory of her hus¬ 
band the late Prof. Ferdinand V. Hayden, the interest of which to¬ 
gether with a bronze medal is to be awarded annually for the best 
publication, exploration, discovery or research in the sciences of 
geology and paleontology, by a committee to be appointed by the 
Academy, the said deed of trust was accepted by and ordered to be 
