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with photographs of the architecture, showing that they were ac- 

 quainted with the structure of the arch. 



Dr. Stout called attention to the prospects of the " Bolivia Col- 

 onization Company," which was intended to establish a settlement 

 about four hundred miles up the Amazon, and to keep open a con- 

 stant communication with the Pacific shores by highways across the 

 Andes. He hoped that some means would be found to make the 

 project an aid to the scientific exploration of those regions, and 

 that the Academy might obtain some of the valuable collections 

 which mijiht be made there. 



Regular Meeting, September 19th, 1870. 

 Judge Gregory Yale in the Chair. 



Rev. Wm. Alexander, of San Jos^, was elected a resident mem- 

 ber, and Drs. Miguel de los Rios and A. J. de los Rios, of Lima, 

 Peru, were elected corresponding members. 



Prof. Esmark, Director of the Zoological Museum, Ohristiania, 

 Norway, was introduced by Dr. Stout, and made some interesting 

 remarks on the fishes of Norway, Avhere he had discovered ten 

 species before known only from Greenland. 



Donations to the Library : An engraved portrait of Berzelius, 

 by J. A. Raymond, through E. Brooks. Gramatica y Arte nueva 

 de lalengua Q' Quichua o lengua del Inca, 8vo., 1842, by Dr. Le 

 Plongeon. Memoirs de la Societe Royale des antiquaires du Nord, 

 Copenhagen, 1867, 8vo.; Tillaeg til Aarbogen for Nordisk Old- 

 kyndighed, og Historic, Copenhagen, 1867-8, 2 vols., 8vo.; Bened 

 Grondal (egilsson), Clavis poetica antiqua linguse septentrionahs, 

 Hafnia, 1864, 1 vol., 8vo.; Dannevirke og Omegn, Chr. C. Loren- 

 zen, Haderslev, 1863, 1 vol., 8vo.; Fragmenta Phytographise Aus- 

 tralia, Nos. L. to LIV., all through Dr. F. Miiller. 



Mr. Yale stated that some of the Regents of the University had 

 made verbal oiFers to him, proposing the incorporation of this Acad- 

 emy with the University. 



Dr. Stout and others objected to any such arrangement, and it 

 was finally decided to await more definite propositions. 



