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CORRESPONDENCE. 



CORRESPONDENCE OF THE ACADEMY, 



For 1964, 



Letters were received and read as follows: 



January 5th. Thomas B. Wilson, M. D., Newark, Del., Jan. 1st, 1864, ac- 

 knowledging his election as President of the Academy. 



American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass., 22d Dec, 1863, acknow- 

 ledging the receipt of the publications of the Academy. 



Chicago Historical Society, 27th Dec, 1863, of the same tenor. 



February 9th. Mr. Aug. Fiot, Bethlehem, Pa., 6th Feb., 1864, acknowledging 

 his election to membership. 



March Hth. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, Jan. 21st and 2d March, 

 1864, accompanying donations. 



March 15th. The Royal Academy of Sciences, Lisbon, July 11th, 1863 ; 



Society of Natural Sciences, Hamburg, Feb. 15th, 1863; 



Imperial Academy of Sciences, etc., Lyons, 11th April, 1863 ; 



Imperial Academy of Sciences, etc., Vienna, Aug. 25th, 1863 ; severally ac- 

 companying donations to the Library. 



The Royal Horticultural Society, London, Oct. 17th, 1863 ; 



Geological Society, London, Nov. 4, 1863 ; 



Natural History Society, Danzig, 8th Aug., 1863; 



Natural History Society, NUrnberg, Sept. 30th, 1863 ; 



Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., March 1st, 1864; 



New York State Library, Feb. 1st, 1864; 



Academy of Sciences, St. Louis, Jan. 30, 1864 ; severally acknowledging the 

 receipt of the publications of the Academy. 



Royal Society of Sciences, Leipzig, 22d Aug. and 11th Oct., 1863; 



Society of Natural Sciences, Luneberg, June 23 and Aug. 24, 1863 ; 



Royal Society of Zoology, Amsterdam, Aug. 25, 1863; 



Society of Friends of Natural History, Mecklenburg, Aug. 29, 1863 ; 



Natural History Society, Emden, Oct. 8th, 1863 ; transmitting their publica- 

 tions and acknowledging the receipt of those of the Academy. 



March lid. Historical Society, Chicago, March 18, 1864; 



The Literary and Historical Society, Quebec, March 17, 1864, each accompany 

 ing donations. 



M. Mechelin, Paris, Feb. 20th, 1864, proposing the sale of a collection of 

 Zoophytes. 



U. S. Sanitary Commission, March 15th and 22d, 1864, accepting the offer 

 of the use of the Hall of the Academy and returning thanks for the same. 



The American Philosophical Society, March 19tb, 1864, submitting resolu- 

 tions of the Society in reference to the deposit of specimens. 



May 3d. Imperial Society of Naturalists, Moscou, Sept., 1863; 

 Upper Hessian Society for Natural History, Giessen, Aug. 27th, 1863 ; 

 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Nov. 18th, 1863 ; 

 Senckenberg Natural History Society, Frankfurt-am-Main, Nov. 5, 1863 ; 

 Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, Nov. 30, 1863; 

 Imperial Society of Agriculture, &c, Lyons, April 12, 1863; severally trans- 

 mitting their publications. 



