30 [FEBRUARY, 
Resolved,—That the income of the Stott legacy be applied to the pay- 
ment of the expense of publication of papers ordered by the Academy 
for the Journal. 
The Auditors reported that they had examined the Report of the 
Treasurer for 1851, and had found it correct. 
The Academy then proceeded to an election for Standing Committees 
for 1852. ‘The Tellers announced the following result :— 
Ethnology, John 8. Phillips, James C. Fisher, Robert Pearsall ; 
Comparative Anatomy and General Zoology, J oseph Leidy, Haward 
Hallowell, John Neill; Afammalogy, James ©. Fisher, E. J. Lewis, 
S. W. Woodhouse; Ornithology, John Cassin, Edward Harris, T. B. 
Wilson; Herpetology and Ichthyology, K. Hallowell, John Cassin, 
William Keller; Conchology, Isaac Lea, T. B. Wilson, W. S. W. 
Ruschenberger ; Lntomology and Crustacea, 8. 8. Haldeman, Robert 
Bridges, Wm. 8S. Zantzinger; Botany, R. Bridges, Wm. S. Zantzinger, 
Gavin Watson ; Palecontoloyy, T. A. Conrad, Joseph Leidy, B. Howard 
Rand; Ge aleyy, J. Price Wetherill, Theodore F. Moss, Aubrey H. 
Smith; Mineralogy, Wm. 8. Wome, Samuel Ashmead, Charles M. 
Wetherill; Physics, Benj. H. Coates, James C. Fisher, Wm. Parker 
Foulke; Library, Thomas B. Wilson, Robert Bridges, Robert H. Pe- 
terson; “DB ‘oceedings, Wm. 8. Zantuinger, Joseph Leidy, W. S. W. 
Ruschenberger. 
ELECTION. 
Samuel Webber, M. D., of Charlestown, N. Hampshire, was elected a 
Correspondent, and Caspar W. Sharpless, of Philadelphia, was elected a 
Member of the Academy. 
February 3d. 
Vice President Bripaks in the Chair. 
The following communication was read from Henry A. Ford, M. D., 
dated Glasstown, Gaboon River, West Africa, Nov. 10th, 1851, on the 
characteristics of the Troglodytes Gorilla, accompanying the very fine 
skeleton of that animal presented by him to the Academy, and announced 
this evening. 
‘‘The skeleton that I have the honor of presenting to your Society, isthat of the 
newly discovered species of Orang, which was first described by Drs. Savage 
and Wyman, (in the Boston Journal of Natural History, 1847) and by them called 
Troglodytes Gorilla, and by the natives on this coast, ‘‘Ngena.”’ 
The earliest distinct notice of thisspecies of Orang was made, I believe, by 
Bowditch in 1817, on his return from his Ashantee Mission in a vessel that 
visited this river on its passage to England from Cape Coast Castle. His de- 
scription, though in many respects incorrect, doubtless refers to this species, as 
the name and locality sufficiently identify the animal he describes with the 
specimen I have obtained.* 
I would also remark here, that all subsequent information, as well as all the 
specimens in the hands of Europeans, have been obtained in this river. 
This animal inhabits the range of mountains that traverse the interior of 
* See Mission to Ashantee by T, Edward Bowditch Esq., 4to, London, 1819. Chapter on 
Gaboon River. 
