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RECTIFICATION OF AN OMISSION. 
The Council regret that, through an oversight, the following resolutions, 
adopted 15th April, 1886, did not appear in the volume of Proceedings for 
1886-1887. 
RESOLUTIONS. 
At a meeting of the Newport Natural History Society, April 
15th, 1886, the following resolutions were passed: 
Whereas, It has pleased God to remove from this world Dr. 
Samuel W. Francis, one of our Vice-Presidents, it is 
Resolved , That the Society is deeply sensible of what it owes 
to Dr. Francis as the founder, and as one who spared neither time 
nor trouble to advance its interests, and promote the study of 
Natural History. 
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Resolved , That in common with his many friends the Society 
laments in Dr. Francis, a man of varied culture and scientific 
attainments, and an honorable and useful member of the commu¬ 
nity, whose Christian virtues and peculiarly warm-hearted and 
affectionate nature, render his loss a great one, and will cause the 
sorrow of the Society for his death, to be always associated with 
feelings of regard and esteem for his memory. 
Resolved , That the Society tenders its sincere sympathy to the 
family of the deceased. 
Resolved , That copies of the above resolutions be sent to the 
Newport newspapers, and that they be recorded on the minutes 
of the Society. 
William C. Rives, Jr., 
George Gordon King, 
Committee, 
