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REPORT

OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE THOMPSON FUND, HARTFORD MEETING,

AUGUST, 1874.

The Standing Committee of the Association at the Portland Meeting appointed the undersigned a Committee with full power to accept and print such papers as they might deem of sufficient importance to be published by the donation of Mrs. Thompson.

In accordance with the duties assigned to them, the Committee have accepted the Memoir by Mr. Scudder on Fossil Butterflies as the first paper to be published by the Thompson Fund, and while regretting that the unavoidable delay in engraving the plates prevents their having the gratification of presenting the work at the present Meeting, they believe that the Association and its liberal patron will accept the Memoir as one in every way worthy of the honor thus bestowed.


Asa Gray,
James Hall,
Thomas Hill,
P. H. Van der Weyde, Committee.
J. L. LeConte,
T. Sterry Hunt,
F. W. Putnam.