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Carol. Akad. cler Naturforsclier, Halle a. S. (150) ; Dr. Paul 

 Hejse, Munich, Bavaria (150) ; Prof. Paolo Montegazza, 

 Florence. Italy (147) ; Soc. Geologique de jSTormandie, 

 Havre, France (150) ; Soc. Fran^aise de Physique, Soc. 

 Philologique, Comte de Charencey, Paris, France (150) ; E. 

 Acad, de Ciencias y Artes, Barcelona, Spain (143, 145-149); 

 Academy of Sciences, New York, N. Y. (136) ; Dr. Charles 

 Schaffer, Philadelphia (151). 



Accessions to the Library were reported from the Exhibi- 

 tion Trustees, Melbourne, Australia ; Acad. Sciences, 

 Cracow, Austria ; K. P. Geodat. Institutes, Berlin ; Yerein 

 f. Erdkunde, Halle a. S., Prussia ; K. Sachs. Meteorl. Insti- 

 tut, Chemnitz ; K. B. Akad. der Wissenschaften, Munich, 

 Bavaria ; Soc. de Physique, Paris, France ; Literary and 

 Philosophical Society, Manchester, Eng.; Mr. Edward 

 "Waldo Emerson, Cambridge, Mass.; American Museum 

 Natural History, New York, N. Y.; Yassar Brothers' Insti- 

 tute, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; American Academy Political 

 and Social Science, First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia ; 

 Pennsylvania State College ; Columbian LTniversity, Wash- 

 ington, D. C; Colorado College Scientific Society, Colorado 

 Springs ; Institute of Jamaica, Kingston. 



The Wistar Institute acknowledges the gifts of busts of 

 Dr. Franklin and Dr. Caspar Wistar. 



The President announced by letter that he had appointed 

 Mr. F. H. Cushing, Dr. Thomas N. Gill and Dr. D. G. Briu- 

 ton, to represent this Society at a meeting to be held in 

 Washington in, memory of G. Brown Goode. 



A letter from Mr. Cassell gives the following information : 

 Benjamin Kittenhouse, brother of David, died August 31, 

 1825, Ninth street above Yine, in this city, and was buried 

 September 2, in St. James' Cemetery, at Evansburg, Mont- 

 gomery county, Pa. 



The Committee appointed to arrange for the quarterly 

 meetings at which subjects of broad philosophic interest 

 were to be discussed made a report of their doings for the 

 year. 



