1:896.] "^ 



Stated Meeting, March 20, 1896. 



Yice-President, Dr. Peppee, in the Chair. 



Present, 22 members. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



Letter of envoy irom Mr. Robert N. Toppan, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



Letters of acknowledgment from the Royal Society ol New 

 Sonth Wales, Sydney (143-146); K. B. Astron.-meteorolo- 

 gische Observatorinm, Triest, Austria (142-147) ; Prof. Dr. 

 F, Muller, Vienna, Austria (147) ; Oberhessische Gesellschaft 

 fiirlSTatur- und Heilkunde, Giessen, Germany (147); K. Sachs. 

 Gesellschaft d. Wissenschaften, Leipzig (143, 146, 147) ; Mar- 

 quis Antonio De Gregorio, Palermo, Italy (147) ; Prof. E. D. 

 Cope (147, 148), Mr. F. Prime, Philadelphia (147); Prof. 

 John F. Carll, Pleasantville, Pa. (148) ; Lieut. A. b'. Wyck- 

 off, IST. Yakima, Washington (148). 



Letters of acknowledgment (149) from the Laval University, 

 Quebec, Canada ; Canadian Institute, Toronto, Canada ; 

 Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Me.; N. H. Historical 

 Society, Concord ; Vermont Historical Society, Montpelier ; 

 Amherst College Library, Mass.; Mass. Historical Society^ 

 Boston Athenaeum, Boston Society of Natural History, Dr. 

 Samuel A. Green, Boston, Mass.; Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, Harvard College, Profs. W. W. Goodwin, F. W. 

 Putnam, Mr. Robert N. Toppan, Cambridge, Mass.; Essex 

 •Institute, Salem, Mass.; Amer. Antiquarian Society, Worces- 

 ter, Mass.; Agricultural Experiment Station, Kingston, R. I.; 

 Providence Franklin Society, Brown University Library, 

 Providence, R. I.; Mr. George F. Dunning, Farmington, 

 Conn.; Conn. Plistorical Society, Hartford; Buffalo Library,, 

 Society of Natural Sciences, Buffalo, N. Y.; Prof. Edward 

 North, Clinton, N. Y.; Profs. T. F. Crane, J. M. Hart,, 

 Ithaca, N. Y.; Astor Library, N. Y. Academy of Medicine, 

 Columbia College, Plistorical Society, Amer. Museum of Na- 

 tural History, N. Y. Hospital, Prof. Joel Asaph Allen, Hon. 



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