oOJi [Dec. 4, 



Stated Meeting, December 4, 1896. 



The President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Present, 27 members. 



Minutes of meeting of November 20 read and approved.- 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



Invitation from the Chicago liistorical Society to attend the 

 exercises at the opening of its new building, Tuesday, 

 December 15, 1896. 



Letters of envoy from the Yerein f. Schlesisclie Insekten- 

 kunde, Breslau, Prussia ; Soc. Italiana delle Scienze, Bome ; 

 Department of State, Washington, D. C; Prof E. W. Clay- 

 pole, Akron, O. ; Observatorio Astronumico, Cordoba, Pe- 

 publica Argentina. 



Letters of acknowledgment from Mr. Samuel Davenport, 

 Adelaide, S. Australia (14:8, 149) ; Observatoire phys. Cen- 

 tral de Russie, St. Petersburg (150) ; Societas pro fauna flora 

 fennica. Dr. Otto Donner, Helsingfors, Finland (150) ; Univer- 

 sitats-Biblioteket, Lund, Sweden (150) ; Musee Teyler, Har- 

 lem, Holland (150, 151) ; Prof. Edward Suess, Vienna, Austria 

 (150) ; Redaction der Naturwissenschafllichen Wochen- 

 schrift (150), Bot. Verein der Prov. Brandenburg (l-lo. 146, 

 148), Prof. A. Bastian, Berlin, Prussia (150) ; Phys.-Tech- 

 nische Reichsanstalt, Charlottenburg, Prussia (150) ; Natur- 

 forscheude Gesell., Emdeu, Prussia (150) ; Soc. Phys.-Medica, 

 Erlangen, Bavaria (150) ; Verein f. Geog. u. Statistik, Frank- 

 furt a. M., Germany (150); Oberhessische Gesell. f. Natur- 

 und Heilkunde, Giessen, Germany (150) ; Verein f. 

 Erdkunde, Metz, Germany (148) ; Philosophical Soc, Cam- 

 bridge, Eng. (148, 146-150, and Trans., N. S., xviii, 2 and 3); 

 American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. (151) ; Soc. 

 Cientifica, "Autonit) Al/ate," 01)s. Mcteorol. Magnet. Central, 



