1896.] 



303 



Mexico, Mex. (lol) ; Obs. Meteorol. Magnet. Central, Xalapa, 

 Mex. (151) ; Soc. Cientifica Argentina, Buenos Aires (148, 

 149). 



Accessions to the library were reported from the R. Society 

 of N. S. Wales, ',^Sydney, Australia ; Bot. Yerein der Prov. 

 Brandenburg, Berlin, Prussia ; K. Sachs. Verein f. Alter- 

 thiimer, Dresden ; Deutsche Seewarte, Hamburg, Prussia ; 

 Yerein f. Erdkunde, Metz, Germany ; K. Geod. Instituts, 

 Potsdam, Prussia ; R. Institiito Lombard©, Milan, Italy ; Soc. 

 Italiana delle Scienze, Rome ; R. Acad. Ciencias y Artes, 

 Barcelona, Spain ; Philosophical and Literary Society, Leeds, 

 Eng.; Literary and Philosophical Society, Manchester, Eng.; 

 American Oriental Society, New Haven, Conn.; American 

 Museum Natural History, New York, N. Y.; Capt. H. H. 

 Bellas, Germantown, Phila.; Board of Trustees of Drexel 

 Institute, Mr. F. J. Dreer, Dr. Frederick D. Stone, Philadel- 

 phia ; Acad. Mex. de Ciencias Exactes Fis. y Nat., Obs. 

 Meteorol. y Yulcano del Seminario de Colima, Mexico, Mex.; 

 Obs. Nacional Argentino, Buenos Aires. 



Photograph was received for the Society's Album from 

 Prof. E. W. Claypole, Akron, O. 



Mr. F. D. Stone read an obituary notice of William John 

 Potts. 



The following deaths were announced : 



Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, London, Eng., November 

 21, 1896, get. 68. 



Dr. Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Cambridge, Mass., Novem- 

 ber 27, 1896, get. 72. 



Dr. Y^illiam Pepper exhibited a collection of Mexican pre- 

 historic objects of terra-cotta, obtained by him on his recent 

 visit to the city of Mexico. They comprised a series of 

 miniature clay heads from Teotihuacan, embracing a great 

 variety of types, which were classified by him, for the purpose 

 of exhibition, in accordance with the scheme published by a 

 member of the Society, Mrs. Zelia Nuttall,* in 1886. He 



* "The Terracotta Heads of Teoti7iuacaii," Ainerican Journal of 

 Archceologi/, Vol. ii, Nos. 2 and 3. 



