1896.] -^J* 



France (l-iS) ; Soc. Geologique (149, 150), Prince Roland 

 Bonaparte (149), Dr. Edward Pepper, Paris, France (150) ; 

 Mr. Samnel Timmins, Arley, Coventry, Eng. (150) ; Prof. I. 

 Legge, Oxford, Eng. (150) ; Gen. H. L. Abbot, Cambridge, 

 Mass. (151); Geological Society of America, Ptocliester, 

 N. Y. (161) ; Oneida ^Historical Society, Utica, N. Y. (150) ; 

 Lackawanna Institute of History and Science, Scranton, Pa. 

 (122, 135, 139, 141, 142, 145,^ 148) ; Texas Academy of 

 Science, Austin (151) ; Iowa Masonic Library, Cedar Rapids 

 (149-151) ; Meteorological Observatory, Xalapa, Mex. (151) ; 

 Comite Geolog. de Russie (148, 149). 



Accessions to the Library were reported from the R. Society 

 of S. Australia, Adelaide ; Akad. der Wissenschaften, 

 Vienna, Austria ; Schlesische Gesell. f. Vaterland. Cultur, 

 Breslau, Prussia ; Naturhist. Gesellschaft, Niirnberg, Bava- 

 ria ; Prof. G. de Mortellet, Paris, France ; R. Society of An- 

 tiquaries of Ireland, Dublin ; Royal Society, London, Eng.; 

 American Academy Arts and Sciences, Boston, Mass.; Dr. 

 Charles A. Oliver, Philadelphia ; AVyoming Historical and 

 Geological Society, Wilkesbarre, Pa.; Leander McCormick 

 Observatory, Charlottesville, Va.; Department of State, 

 American Anthropological Society, Washington, D. C; Min- 

 isterio de Fomento, Dr. Nicolas Leon, Mexico, Mex.; Lick 

 Observatory, Mount Hamilton, Cal. 



A copy of the bronze medal issued by the Kings County, 

 N. Y., Medical Society in commemoration of Dr. Jenner. 



Prof. Dr. H. V. Ililprecht made a preliminary and informal 

 statement concerning his latest researches in early Babylonian 

 civilization and chronology and exhibited a number of im- 

 portant antiquities recently acquired by him for the Archaeo- 

 logical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, during 

 his stay in Constantinople and Asia Minor. He laid before the 

 Society the earliest written record from Babylonia so far as 

 known. This document, according to Prof. Hilprecht, was 

 written in the sixth millennium B.C. Its ideograms and 

 phonograms are still hieroglyphs. The only document of a 

 hitherto unknown South Babylonian king, Engeyal of the 



