OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY HELD AT PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. VOL. XLI. JANUARY TO DECEMBER, 1902. PHILADELPHIA: THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. Prof. Dana C. Munro, a newly elected member, was presented to the Chair, and took his seat in the Society. The list of donations to the Library was laid on the table and thanks were ordered for them. The decease of Mr. Clarence King, at Phoenix, Ariz., on December 24, 1901, aged 60 years, was announced. Prof. A. Radcliffe Grote presented a paper entitled "Results Obtained from a Search for the Type of Noctua Linn., and Conclusions as to Types of Hubnerian Noctuid Genera Represented in the North American Fauna." Prof. J. Dyneley Prince presented a paper entitled "A Modern Delaware Tale." Messrs. Joseph Willcox, Joseph C. Fraley and Patterson Du Bois, the Judges of the annual election for Officers and Councillors, reported that the same had been held on this day, between the hours of 2 and 5 in the afternoon, there being present sixty duly qualified members, and that the followingnamed persons were elected, according to the laws, regulations and ordinances of the Society, to be the officers for the ensuing year: |