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May 1.3, l>m.] -*--L^ 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



HELD AT PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XXXV. August, 1896. Xo. 1.51. 



/Stated Meeting, May 15, 1896. 



The Treasurer, Mr. Price, in the Chair. 



Present, 52 members. 



Minutes of May 1 were read and approved. 



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

 cutta ; Observatoire Physique Central, Socidt^ Imperiale Eusse 

 de Geographic, St. Petersburg, Russia; Societas pro Fauna et 

 Flora Fennica, Helsingfors, Finland ; Universite Royale, Lund, 

 Sweden ; K. Sachsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 

 Leipzig ; Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, 

 Bath, Eng ; Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Eng.; Meteoro- 

 logical Office, R. Statistical Society, London, Eng.; Missouri 

 Geological Survey, Jefferson City. 



Letters of acknowledgment from R. Zoologisch Gesellschaft 

 " Natura Artis Magistra," Amsterdam, Netherlands (148) ; 

 Zool. Botan, Society, The Hague, Holland (148) ; Colonial 

 Museum (148) ; Fondalionde P. Teyler van der Hulst, Harlem, 

 Holland (148, and 7rans. xvi, 1, 2) ; Maatschappij der Neder- 

 landsche Letterkunde, Leiden, Holland (148) ; Universite 

 Royale, Lund, Sweden (147) ; Prof. Japetus Steenstrup, Copen- 

 hagen, Denmark (148) ; M usee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de 

 Belgique, Bruxelles (148) ; R. and T. Observatory, Prague, 

 Austria (148) ; Dr. H. Rollett, Baden bei Wien (143, 146-148); 

 K. K. Central Anstalt, flir Meteorologie und Erdmagnetismus. 



riJOC. AlIEE. PHILOS. SOC. XXXV. lol. O. PRINTED AUGUST 12, 1890. 



