19. PECK, CHARLES H. (by invitation of the Academy).-The New York State Herbarium. 20. NEWBERRY, J. S.-On Recent Discoveries of Gigantic Placoderm Fishes in the Devonian Rocks of Ohio. 21. HALL, JAMES.--Remarks upon the Lamellibranchiata Fauna of the Devonian Rocks of the State of New York, and the Results of Investigations made for the Palæontology of the State. 22. NEWBERRY, J. S.-On the Flora of the Cretaceous Clays of New Jersey. The scientific session closed November 13, 1885. SPECIAL SESSION. Held at Albany, N. Y., NoVEMBER 11 and 13, 1885. A special session of the Academy having been called by the council, in accordance with Article III, section 1, of the constitution, the Academy convened in the assembly parlor of the capitol, November 11, 1885, the president, Prof. O. C. Marsh, presiding. The president made a statement concerning the request of the Secretary of the Navy for a committee of the Academy to consider and report upon certain questions relating to the Naval Observatory at Washington, and stated that he had appointed the following committee, who now had the matter under consideration: Barnard, F. A. P., Chairman. Bell, A. Graham. Dana, J. D. Lyman, Theodore. The president also made a statement of the business and publications of the Academy during the past summer, and requested members who have memoirs to print to send the manuscript to him before December 1, 1885. The meeting then adjourned to meet November 13, at the close of the scientific session. ADJOURNED MEETING. HELD NOVEMBER 13, 1885. The adjourned business meeting of the Academy met at 1 o'clock p. m. The president was authorized to present his annual report to Congress, and to include the proceedings of the present scientific session. DEATH OF FOREIGN ASSOCIATE. The president announced the death of Henry Milne-Edwards, foreign associate of the Academy. RESOLUTIONS. The following resolutions were adopted: Resolved, That the thanks of the Academy be tendered to the trustees and director of the State Museum of Natural History; to the trustees and faculty of the Albany Medical College; to the trustees and director of the Dudley Observatory, and to the officers and members of the Albany Institute, for the courteous and considerate attention shown by them to the Academy, and for their efforts to promote the success of the present meeting. Resolved, That the thanks of the Academy be tendered to the trustees of public buildings of the State of New York for the use of the commodious rooms in which the Academy has held its sessions. The special meeting then adjourned. O. C. MARSH, President of the National Academy of Sciences. APPENDIX A. AN ACT to incorporate the National Academy of Sciences. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Louis Agassiz, Massachusetts; J. H. Alexander, Maryland; S. Alexander, New Jersey; A. D. Bache, at large; F. A. P. Barnard, at large; J. G. Barnard, United States Army, Massachusetts; W. H. C. Bartlett, United States Military Academy, Missouri; U. A. Boyden, Massachusetts; Alexis Caswell, Rhode Island; William Chauvenet, Missouri; J. H. C. Coffin, United States Naval Academy, Maine; J. A. Dahlgren, United States Navy, Pennsylvania; J. D. Dana, Connecticut; Charles H. Davis, United States Navy, Massachusetts; George Engelmann, St. Louis, Missouri; J. F. Frazer, Pennsylvania; Wolcott Gibbs, New York; J. M. Gilliss, United States Navy, District of Columbia; A. A. Gould, Massachusetts; B. A. Gould, Massachusetts; Asa Gray, Massachusetts; A. Guyot, New Jersey; James Hall, New York; Joseph Henry, at large; J. E. Hilgard, at large, Illinois; Edward Hitchcock, Massachusetts; J. S. Hubbard, United States Naval Observatory, Connecticut; A. A. Humphreys, United States Army, Pennsylvania; J. L. LeConte, United States Army, Pennsylvania; J. Leidy, Pennsylvania; J. P. Lesley, Pennsylvania; M. F. Longstreth, Pennsylvania; D. H. Mahan, United States Military Academy, Virginia; J. S. Newberry, Ohio; H. A. Newton, Connecticut; Benjamin Peirce, Massachusetts; John Rodgers, United States Navy, Indiana; Fairman Rogers, Pennsylvania; R. E. Rogers, Pennsylvania; W. B. Rogers, Massachusetts; L. M. Rutherfurd, New York; Joseph Saxton, at large; Benjamin Silliman, Connecticut; Benjamin Silliman, junior, Connecticut; Theodore Strong, New Jersey; John Torrey, New York; J. G. Totten, United States Army, Connecticut; Joseph Winlock, United States Nautical Almanac, Kentucky; Jeffries Wyman, Massachusetts; J. D. Whitney, California, their associates and successors duly chosen, are hereby incorporated, constituted, and declared to be a body corporate, by the name of the National Academy of Sciences. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the National Academy of Sciences shall consist of not more than fifty ordinary members, and the said corporation hereby constituted shall have power to make its own organization, including its constitution, by-laws, and rules and regula |