■^ [Jan. 3, 



Councilors. 



Wra. A. Ingham, Chas. S. Wurts, Robert Patterson, Henry 



Hartshorne, Isaac J. Wistar, in place of Bicbard Vaux, 



deceased. 



Oq motion, tbe thanks of the Society were tendered to Judge 

 Edmunds and bis associates for their services on the board of 

 election. 



Letters of envoy from the Geological Survey of India, Cal- 

 cutta ; Naturwissenschaftlichem Vereine, OsnabrUck, Prussia ; 

 Society of Antiquaries, London, Eng.; Direccion General de 

 Estadistica, Mexico, Mex. 



Letters of acknowledgment from the Linnean Society of N. 

 S. Wales, Sydney (143, 146); Geological Survey of India, Cal- 

 cutta (147); M. G. Tschermak, Vienna, Austria (147); Natur- 

 wissenschaftl. Gesellscbaft '• Isis," Dresden, Saxony (147); 

 Societa Italiana d'Igiene, Milan, Italy (143, 146) ; Societa Afri- 

 cana d'ltalia, Naples, Italy (147) ; R. Accademia di Scienze, 

 Lettere, etc., Padua, Italy (143) ; R. Comitato Geologic© d'ltalia, 

 Rome (147); Dr. Charles S. Wurts, Philadelphia (147); Cali- 

 fornia Academy of Sciences, San Francisco (144, 145). 



Accessions to the Library were reported from the Schweiz. 

 Naturfor. Gesellscbaft, Schaflfhausen ; Thiiringische Geschichte 

 nnd Altertumskunde, Jena, Germany ; Mr. Horatio Hale, 

 Ottowa, Canada ; Dr. Samuel A. Green, Boston, Mass. ; Dr. 

 C. A. M. Fennell, Cambridge, Mass.; Prof. E. J. James, Mr. B. 

 S. Lyman, Philadelphia; U. S. National Museum, U. S. 

 Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.; Academy of Sciences, 

 Department of Public Works, Chicago, 111.; Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, Ames, la.; Dr. Jesus Diaz de Leon, 

 Aguascalientes, Mexico ; Sociedad Cientifica, " Antonio 

 Alzate," Mexico, Mex. 



Tbe stated business of the meeting being the nomination of 

 Librarian, J. Sergeant Price nominated George H. Horn, and 

 E. D. Cope nominated Benj. S. Lyman. 



Prof. Cope made a verbal communication on certain 



