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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



HELD AT PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XXXV. December, 1896. No. 153. 



Stated Meeting, October 16, 1896. 



Vice-President Dr. Pepper in the Chair. 



Present, 30 members. 



Mr. Frank L. Gushing, a newly elected member, was 

 introduced and took his seat. 



Minntes of meeting, October 2, read and adopted. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 

 ' A letter from the Society of Colonial Wars inviting us to 

 participate in a memorial meeting to Dr. G. Brown Goode was 

 referred to the President with power to appoint the Com- 

 mittee. 



Letter of envoy from the Facultt^ des Sciences, Marseilles, 

 France, 



Letters of acknowledgment from Major Richard C. Temple, 

 Port Blair, Andaman Islands (148, 14:9) ; Linnean Soc. of 

 N. S. Wales, Sydney (148, 149) ; R. Society of Victoria, 

 Melbourne (92) ; Observatoire, Athens, Greece (143, 146- 

 149) ; Geographical Society, Tokyo, Japan (148, 149) ; Soc. 

 pro Fauna Flora Fennica (149), Dr. Otto Donner, Helsingfors, 

 Finland (148, 149) ; Physico-Math. Society, Kasan, Russia 

 (148, 149) ; Profs. Serge Nikitin, John Pomialowsky, St. 

 Petersburg, Russia (148, 149); Acad. R. des Scien-es, 

 Amsterdam, Netherlands (147-149, and Trans., xviii, 2, 3); 

 Soc. R. de Geographic, Antwerp, Belgium (149) ; I. R. 

 Accad. degli Agiati, Rovereto, Austria (149) ; Profs. F. 



FROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXXV. 153. 2 K. PRINTED APRIL 20, 1897. 



