370 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1886. 



At the meeting held June 22, the Academy, by resolution, 

 joined with other scientific societies in an invitation to the 

 International Congress of Geologists, to hold in America, the 

 meeting after that provided for in London. 



On November 2, a committee consisting of Messrs. U. C. Smith, 

 Thos. Meehan, Angelo Heilprin, Rev. Henry C. McCook and 

 T. D. Rand, was appointed to solicit aid from the Legislature 

 in the erection of an addition to the present building. No result 

 has as yet been reported to the Academy. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



Edw. J. Nolan, 



Recording Seci^etary. 



REPORT OP THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 



During the year the duties of the Corresponding Secretary 

 have been unusually light, and have consisted in great part of 

 the reception of acknowledgments from corresponding societies 

 of publications sent by us and the usual letters of transmittal 

 from them. As many of our exchanges are now sent through 

 the mail, the acknowledgments are in the form of postal cards, 

 which indicate by their dates how much earlier our publications 

 are brought to the notice of the scientific world. 



The four corresponding members elected during the year have 

 been promptlj'' notified, and letters in return have been received 

 from them and read to the Academy. 



The donations to the Museum have been many and important, 

 as will appear in the Curators' report. It is one of the duties 

 of my office to send receipts for these, but to the Curator-in- 

 charge I must acknowledge my indebtedness for the fulfillment 

 of a duty of which I ofl^icially know nothing, having merely affixed 

 my signature in former years. 



Very little correspondence of a miscellaneous nature has been 

 received, the Bureau of Scientific Information having apparently 

 been communicated with directly. 



Acknowledgments of the receipt of our publications have 

 been received by postal card, in total, 56 ; representing foreign 

 societies, etc., 12 ; American, 15 ; Canadian, 3. 



