Lackawanna Institute of History and Science, Scranton, Pa.; University of Virginia, U. of Va. P. O.; Literary Society, Rantoul, Ill.; Academy of Natural Sciences, Davenport, Ia.; State Historical Society, Iowa City, Ia.; Kansas Academy of Science, State Historical Society, Topeka, Kans.; Prof. H. T. Eddy, Minneapolis, Minn.; Colorado Scientific Society, Denver; Nebraska State Historical Society, Experiment Station, Lincoln, Neb.; University of Arizona, Tucson; Academy of Science, Tacoma, Wash.; Observatorio Meteorologico Magnetico, Mexico, Mex.; Meteorologial Observatory, Xalapa, Mexico; Bishop Crescencio Carrello, Merida, Yucatan.

Accessions to the Library were reported from the Adelaide Observatory, Adelaide, S. Australia; Royal Society of Victoria, Melbourne; New Zealand Institute, Wellington; K. Norske Videnskabers Selskabs, Throndhjem, Norway; K. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, Prussia; Verein für Naturkunde, Offenbach a.M., Germany; Mr. Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, France; Royal Society of Canada, Ottawa; Mr. Benjamin Smith Lyman, Philadelphia; U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C.; Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, Cal.

The death of Dr. Charles V. Riley, Washington, D. C., September 14, 1895, æt. 52, was announced.

Prof. Cope exhibited a number of teeth and some ungual phalanges of individuals of Mylodon from the salt deposit of Petite Anse, Louisiana. He remarked that remains of Mylodon harlanii were rather abundant, and that the present specimens indicated two additional species of the genus. One of these is of small size, the animal having had probably not over half the bulk of the M. harlanii. It is represented by a right maxillary bone, with teeth in place, and a series of inferior molars of a second individual. The first-named specimen gives the first information as to the structure and positions of the superior molars in a North American species of the genus. It shows that both of the latter differ considerably from the South American forms. The large and small North American species differ also in the forms of both the superior and inferior molars. To the latter Prof. Cope gave the name

of Mylodon renidens. Some separate teeth differ from those of both species, but one of the inferior molars resembles nearly that of the small species. This he regarded as a third species, and to it he gave the name of Mylodon sulcidens. It is of about the same size as the M. harlanii. He promised a detailed paper on these forms at a future meeting.

Treasurer J. Sergeant Price presented the following:

Whereas, Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr., our late Librarian, died June 6, 1995, subsequent to the adjournment of our Society for the summer; and

Whereas, Our President and the Chairman of the Committee on Hall of the Society felt it important to have some one take immediate charge of the building and Library, and having much to their gratification found that Dr. George H. Horn, one of our Secretaries, would have leisure to fill the office, did, with the approval of such members as could be seen, appoint him Librarian pro tem., till the vacancy could be filled by the Society; therefore

Resolved, That the action of said officers be approved by the Society, and that Dr. Horn be continued as such Librarian until the next annual election for Librarian, in January, 1896.

On motion, the resolution was unanimously adopted.

Pending nominations Nos. 1329 and 1330 were read, when, after the reading of the rough minutes, the Society was adjourned by the presiding member.

Stated Meetiny, October 4, 1895.

President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair.

Present, 12 members.

Correspondence was submitted as follows:

Letters of acknowledgment from the Royal Society of Victoria, Melbourne (145); K. Norske Videnskabers Selskab, Throndhjem (145); Dr. O. Donner, Helsingfors, Finland (143, 146); K. Statistiska Central Byrån, Stockholm, Sweden (147); Dr. Fried. S. Krauss, Vienna, Austria (143, 146); Prof. Dr. Reuleaux, Berlin, Prussia (143, 146); Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, Hannover, Prussia (143, 146); Dr. Charles A. M. Fen

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nell, Cambridge, Eng. (147); Linnean Society (147), Royal Society, R. Statistical Society, Geological Society (Trans. xviii, 2 and 147), Sir James Paget, London, Eng. (147); Geographical Society, Manchester, Eng. (147); Sir William G. Armstrong, Cragside, Rothbury, Eng. (143, 144, 146); Dr. Isaac Roberts, Starfield, Crowborough, Sussex, Eng. (147); Royal Society, Edinburgh, Scotland (Trans., xviii, 2 and 147); Philosophical Society, Lord Kelvin, Glasgow, Scotland (147); Prof. J. M. Hart, Ithaca, N. Y. (147); Prof. Robert W. Rogers, Madison, N. J. (147).

Accessions to the Library were reported from the Geographical Society, Tokyo, Japan; Ponasang Missionary Hospital, Foochow, China; Académie R. des Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden; Wetteraiusche Gesellschaft für die Gesammte Naturkunde, Hanau, Germany; Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, Prussia; Société Fribourgeoise des Sciences Naturelles, Fribourg, Switzerland; Société de Physique, Geneva, Switzerland; Rousdon Observatory, Devon, Eng.; Philosophical and Literary Society, Leeds, Eng.; Université Laval, Quebec, Canada; Tufts College, Mass.; Rev. Frank P. Manhart, Philadelphia; War Department, Washington, D. C.; Agricultural Experiment Station, Columbia, Mo.; Newberry Library, Springfield, Ill.; Prof. Herman Haupt, St. Paul, Minn.; Comisión Geológica Mexicana, Mexico, Mex.

The death of Prof. Louis Pasteur, Paris, France-d. September 28, 1895, b. December 27, 1822-was announced.

Prof. Cope reported the recent discovery of Permian Reptilia in Texas.

Mr. Williams made the following motion:

Resolved, That a Committee of five members be appointed to consider the expediency of preparing a plan of a coöperative Index of all Transac tions, and if expedient to report such a plan to the Society" (see Minutes, October 6, 1893).

Resolution was agreed to.

Pending nominations Nos. 1329 and 1330 were read.

And the Society was adjourned by the President.

Stated Meeting, October 18, 1895.

President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair.

Present, 22 members.

Correspondence was submitted as follows:

A letter from Sir A. Wollaston Franks, London, England, October 3, 1895, accepting membership.

A letter of envoy from Mr. Jules Viennot, Philadelphia. Letters of acknowledgment from the Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Bamberg, Bavaria (143, 146); Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein, Bremen, Germany (147); Royal Meteorological Society, London, England (147); Prof. James Geikie, Edinburgh, Scotland (147); Sociedad Cientifica "Antonio Alzate," Mexico, Mex. (147).

A photograph for the Society's Album was received from Mr. Augustus R. Grote, Hildesheim, Prussia.

The death of Dr. John G. Morris, Lutherville, Md., October 10, 1895, æt. 92, was announced.

The President announced the following appointments to prepare obituary notices: Prof. A. II. Smyth for Henry Phillips Jr.; A. J. Cassatt for Henry H. Houston ; J. G. Rosengarten for P. F. Rothermel.

In the absence of a quorum, the election for members was, on motion, postponed until later.

Dr. Frazer called attention to the omission of any record of the report of progress of his committee to examine methods employed in the study of handwriting, from the minutes of the meeting of September 6, and requested the decision of the President regarding the correction of the minutes.

The President decided that corrections of the minutes should be made either at the meeting to which they refer or at the next subsequent meeting.

A communication from Prof. A. R. Grote, entitled, "On Apatela," was read by title and referred to the Secretaries. A quorum of the Society being present, nominations 1329

and 1330 were read and spoken to, and the Society proceeded to ballot.

The Tellers having announced that their report on the ballot was ready, the President instructed them to present it. The report declared the following persons duly elected members:

2275. Albert P. Brubaker, M.D., Philadelphia.

2276. Sara Yorke Stevenson, Sc.D., Philadelphia.

The rough minutes were then read and the Society adjourned by the President.

Memoir of James E. Rhoads, M.D., LL.D.

By Dr. Henry Hartshorne.

(Read before the American Philosophical Society, May 3, 1895.)

James E. Rhoads was born at Marple, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, January 21, 1828. His parents, on both sides, were of recorded descent from ancient families of rank and position in England and Wales. From the earliest rise of the religious Society of Friends in Great Britain, both the Rhoads and Evans (his mother's) families have been members of that small but influential body; and for several generations in Philadelphia, some of them have been among its most prominent ministers and members. Seldom have the tendencies of heredity, under favorable conditions, been more beneficially shown than in the history of such families as these, through more than two hundred years. While in Europe titled descent is not unfrequently attended by physical, mental and moral degeneration, “blood tells ;" and few finer examples of human development exist than those of men and women who, through a long series of generations, have enjoyed, in town and country, the means of comfortable though not luxurious living, with education, a measure of social refinement, and the preservative atmosphere of religious motives and contemplation.

James E. Rhoads received his academic education at Westtown School, Pennsylvania, a denominational institution of the Society of Friends. He chose the medical profession for his vocation, and entered upon its study with his uncle, Dr. Charles Evans, of Philadelphia. For one or two years he also gave a portion of his time as a teacher in a Friends' school in this city.

Graduating in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1851, for a short period he had charge of the Philadelphia Dispensary.