1896.] 'j'-'* 



Stated Meeting^ December 18^ 1806. 

 Vice-President, Dr. Pepper, in the Cliair. 

 Present, 3-i members. 



On motion the regular order of business was suspended and 

 Drs. W. H. Furness and Hiller gave an account of their re- 

 cent journey in Borneo and the Loo-Choo Islands. 



Minutes of December 4 read and approved. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



Letter from the President of the Geological Society of 

 Washington, requesting the cooperation of this Society with 

 the Pasteur Monument Committee of the United States in 

 collecting subscriptions for the erection of a monument at 

 Paris, to Pasteur. 



Letter from the Observatorio Meteorl. y Astron., San 

 Salvador, C. A., announcing the death of its Director, Dr. 

 Don Alberto Sanchez. 



Circular letter from M. Julian Aparicio, announcing his 

 appointment to succeed Dr. Don Alberto Sanchez as Director 

 of the Observatorio Meteorl. y Astron., San Salvador, C. A. 



Letter of resignation from Mr. E. A. Barber, West Chester, 

 Pa., December 9, 1896, Resignation accepted. 



Letters of acknowledgment {Trans. ^ N. S., xix, 1), from 

 the Public Library, Boston, Mass.; American Antiquarian 

 Society, Worcester, Mass.; Yale University, New Haven, 

 Conn.; Buffalo Library, Buffalo, N. Y.; Historical Society, 

 New York, N. Y.; Academy Natural Sciences, University 

 of Pennsylvania, Historical Society, Philadelphia ; State 

 Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison ; Kansas Academy 

 of Science, Topeka. 



Letters of acknowledgment of Proceedings from the 

 Naturf. Gesellschaffc, Dorpat, Russia (149) ; Tashkent Obser- 

 vatory, Tashkent, Russia (150) ; R. Zool. Society, " Natura 

 Artis Magistra," Amsterdam, Netherlands (150, 151); 

 Colonial Museum, Haarlem, Holland (150, 151) ; K. K. 

 Naturhist. Hofmuseum, Vienna, Austria (150) ; K. Leop. 



PKOC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXXV. 153. 2 M. PRINTED APRIL 20, 1897. 



