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Stated Meeting^ November 6, IS 90. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Present, 3-i members. 



Minutes of meeting, October 16, were read and ajDproved. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



Acceptance of membership from Harrison Allen, M.D., 

 October 23, 1896 ; Edson S. Bastin, A.M., October 24, 1896. 



An invitation from the Societd Hongroise de Geographic, 

 Budapest, to its twenty-fifth anniversary, October 18, 1896. 



Communication from the Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires 

 requesting the supply of certain deficiencies in its set of 

 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. From 

 Mechanics' Library, of Altoona, asking for deficiencies. 



Letters of envoy from the Geological Survey of India, Cal- 

 cutta ; Acad, des Sciences, Cracow, Austria ; Gesellschaft z. 

 Beforderung der gesammten Naturwissenschaften, Marburg, 

 Prussia ; Central Bureau der Internat. Erdmessung, Potsdam, 

 Prussia ; E,. Statistical Society, London, Eng. 



Letters of acknowledgment from the Asiatic Society of 

 Japan, Tokyo (148, 149) ; Koyal Society of N. S. Wales, 

 Sydney (147) ; E. Acad, of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden 

 (150) ; K. Danish Geographical Society, Prof. Japetus Steen- 

 strup, Copenhagen, Denmark (150) ; E. Zool. Society," Natnra 

 Artis Magistra," Amsterdam, Netherlands (149); Public 

 Museum, Moscow, Eussia (149) ; Imperial Academy of Sci- 

 ences, St. Petersburg (150) ; M. Franz Eitt. v. Hauer, Yienna. 

 Austria (150) ; Naturforscbende Gesellschaft, Bamberg, Ba- 

 varia (142, 150) ; K. Bibliothek, Berlin, Prussia (150) ; K. 

 Geodiitisches Institut, Berlin-Potsdam, Prussia (150) ; 

 Naturwissenschaftl. Verein, Bremen, Germany (150) ; Natur- 

 wissenschaftl. Gesell. " Isis," Dresden, Saxony (150) ; JSTatur- 

 forschende Gesell., Em den, Prussia (149) ; Oberhessiche 

 Gesell. f. Natur- und Ilcilkundc, Giessen, ^Germany (149) ; 



