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[Nov. 20, 



Further discussion of the subject was made by Dr. D. G. 

 Brinton and Prof. F. W. Putnam. 



The hour of ten having been passed, the Society was 

 adjourned. 



Stated Meeting, November SO, 1896. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. ^ 



Present, -Itt members. 



Minutes of meeting, November 6, were read and approved. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



A letter from Hon. Mayer Sulzberger, accepting the duty 

 of preparing an obituary notice of the late Joseph B. ToAvn- 

 send, Esq. 



Letters of envoy from the Akad. dcr AVissenschaften, 

 Vienna, Austria ; Schlesische Gesell. f, Vaterlandische Cul- 

 tur, Breslau, Prussia ; K. Sachsische Gesell. der Wissen- 

 schafteu, Leipzig. 



Letters of acknowledgment from the Koyal Society of Vic- 

 toria, Melbourne (148, 149) ; Physico-Math. Society, Kasan, 

 Eussia (150) ; Library of Marine Ministry, Prof. Serge Niki- 

 tin, St. Petersburg, Eussia (150) ; K. K. Sternwarto, Prague, 

 Bohemia (150); K, K. Central- Anstalt f. Meteorologie, etc., 

 Dr. Friederich S. Krauss, Vienna, Austria (150) ; Naturfor- 

 schende Gesell. des Osterlandes, Altenburg, Prussia (150) ; 

 Gesell. f, Erdkunde, Berlin, Prussia (150) ; K. Siiclis. Mete- 

 orol. Institut, Chemnitz (150); Verein f. Erdkunde (150), 

 Mrs. Zelia Nuttall, Dresden, Saxony (147-150) ; Prof. E. W. 

 Bunsen, Heidelberg, Germany (150) ; K. Sachs. Gesell. d. 

 Wissenschaften, Leipzig (148-150) ; Verein f. Erdkunde, 

 Metz, Germany (149) ; K. Stern warte, Munich, Bavaria (150); 

 Verein f. Vaterlandische Naturkundo in WUrttemborg, Stutt- 

 gart (150) ; E. Accad. di Scienze, etc., Modena, Italy (149) ; 

 Acad,- des Sciences et Belles-Lettres, Angers, France (148) ; 

 Soc. des Sciences Nat. ct Archcol. do la Crease, Gut^ret^ 



