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455th Meeting. May 23, 1896, 
President Clarke in the chair. 
Thirty-four members and guests present. 
Announcement was made of the election to membership of 
Mr. Harry Franklin Flynn. 
The following biographical sketches were read: 
Thomas Antisell, by W. H. Seaman. [Published in this 
volume, pp. 367-370.] 
Stephen Vincent Benet, b}^ Rogers Birnie. [Published in 
this volume, pp. 370-374.] 
J. Mills Browne, by Robert Fletcher. 
Thomas Lincoln Casey, by Bernard R. Green. [Published 
in this volume, pp. 374-380.] 
Robert Edward Earll, by G. Brown Goode. [Published 
in this volume, pp. 388-390.] 
William Lee, by D. Webster Prentiss. [Published in this 
volume, pp. 405-407.] 
Walter Lamb Nicholson, by Edward Goodfellow. [Pub¬ 
lished in this volume, pp. 407-408.] 
Charles Valentine Riley, by L. O. Howard. [Published 
in this volume, pp. 412-416.] 
William Bower Taylor, by W. J. Rhees. [Published in 
abridged form in this volume, pp. 418-426. Published in full 
in the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 1896, vol. i, 
p. 645.] 
456th Meeting. October 31, 1896. 
President Clarke in the chair. 
Twenty-five members and guests present. 
Announcement was made of the election to membership of 
Charles Richards Dodge. 
Announcement was made of the deaths, on July 30, 1896, of 
Mr, J. M. Toner; on August 7, 1896, of Mr. Samuel Shella- 
