*>^ [Feb. 7, 



Stated Meeting, February 7, 1890. 



Present, 8 members. 



Prof. Edwin J. Houstox in the Chair. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



Letters from Sir George G. Stokes, F.R.S., London, and Dr. 

 Friederich S. Krauss, Vienna, accepting membership in the 

 Society. 



A letter from the Physikalisch-Oekonomische Gesellschaft 

 zu Koenigsberg in Preussen, announcing the approaching Cen- 

 tennial Anniversary of its formation (February 22, 1890). 



An invitation from Columbia College, New York city, N. 

 Y., to be present by delegate at the inauguration of Seth Low 

 as President, on February 3, 1890. 



Letters of envoy were received from the K. Leop6ldinisch- 

 Carolinische Akademie, Halle a. S. ; Meteorological Office, 

 London. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Royal 

 Society of Victoria, Melbourne (129); Naturwissenschaftlicber 

 Verein des Regierungs-Bezirks, Frankfurt a. O. (129); K. 

 Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Akademie, Halle a. S.. (129) ; Prof. 

 J. Victor Carus, Leipzig (127, 128) ; Societe des Sciences Phy- 

 siques et Naturelles, Bordeaux (129); Sir Monier .Monier- 

 Williams, London (128, 129) ; Hon. J. M. LeMoine, Quebec 

 (129, 130); Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, Hali- 

 fax (96-130, Catalogue, etc.) ; Anthropological Society, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. (125, 126, 127, 128); Prof. James b". Angell, 

 Ann Arbor (129) ; Geological Survejr of Missouri, Jefferson 

 City (129, 130, Catalogue, etc.). 



Letters of acknowledgment (130) were received from the 

 Geological and Natural History Survey, Ottawa, Canada ; 

 University of Toronto, Canadian Institute, Toronto ; Maine 

 Historical Society, Portland Society of Natural History, Port- 

 land, Me. ; Northern Academy of Arts and Sciences, Prof. 



