268 



Committees, Special : Page. 



Extended Accommodations 31,89,101,102,106,107. 



Franklin Celebration 31,36,91,95,96,97,108,161,162 



-Cope, Dr., resolution respecting the improvement of the Proceedings 263 



Resolution adopted and Committee appointed 263 



Cornelian formerly worn by Dr. Benjamin Franklin, presented by Miss Jane Rit- 



tenhouse Wilson 100 



Election, Annual, of Officers, etc. 27,28 



Etting, Colonel F. M., will of 258 



Etting bequest, motion of Arthur Biddle in regard to 258, 263 



Exchanges ordered : 



Museo Michoacano, Morelia, Mexico ; San Francisco Public Library ; Soci6t6 

 Royale de G6ographie d'Anvers, Antwerp, Belgium ; Tokyo Anthropologi- 

 cal Society ; Rochester Academy of Science ; The Royal Asiatic Society 

 (Straits Branch), Singapore; K. Danske Geografiske Selskab, Copenhagen; 

 Observatorium der K. K. Nautischen Akademie, Triest ; K. K. Militar- 

 Geographische Institut, Wieu ; Geodatische Institut, Hydrographische Amt 

 des Reichs-Marine-Amt, Berlin ; Verein fiir Erdkunde, Cassel ; K. Sachs. 

 Meteorologische Institut, Chemnitz ; Siebenbergische Verein fiir Natur- 

 wissenchaften, Hermaimstadt ; Naturwissenschaftliche Verein, Osnabriick ; 

 Wiirtembergische Verein fiir Handelsgeographie, Stuttgart ; Etat Indepen- 

 dant du Congo, Bruxelles ; Societe Neuchateloise de G£ographie, Neu- 

 chatel ; Union Gebgraphique du Nord de la France, Douai ; SociSte' do 

 Geographie, Lille ; Ministero di Agr. e Commercio Direzione Generate della 

 Statistica, Rome ; Manchester Geographical Society ; Belfast Natural History 

 and Philosophical Society ; Instituto Meteorologico Nacional de Costa Rica ; 

 Direccion General de Estadistica, La Plata. 



Field, Robert Patterson, a lately elected member, presented to the Chair 248 



Franklin, letter from Daniel F. Wolf, suggesting the Tombstone of, should be relet- 



tered, etc 98 



Franklin celebration 161-226 



Friebis, Dr. George, a lately elected member, presented to the Chair 28 



Januet, Claudio, letter from 257 



Jefferson, plaster portrait medallion of, presented . 261 



Legacy from Auguste Carlier 257 



Librarian nominated 28 



Librarian reelected 29 



Massion, P., letter from 98, 99 



Mitchell, James T., a lately elected member, presented to the Chair 259 



Muhlenberg, Rev. F. A., letter from, accompanying his donation of the Botanical 



Books of his grandfather, Rev. Henry E. Muhlenberg 94, 95 



Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Emden, letter from, thanking Society for its letter of 

 congratulation ou the late celebration of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of 



its Foundation 92 



Norris, William J., mortgage ordered to be satisfied 101 



Officers and Council, Proceedings submitted 89, 100 



Patterson, Robert, letter from, in reference to Peale Collection of Stone Imple- 

 ments 260 



Peale Collection of Stone Implements, letter from Mr. Robert Patterson in refer- 

 ence to 260 



Phillips, Emily, letter from, offering the portrait of Henry M. Phillips 103 



Phillips, Henry M., portrait presented 103 



Accepted 104 



Photographs received : 



Dr. R. H. Alison, Ardmore, Pa 29 



II Marchese de Gregorio, Palermo 29 



Runic characters on Mananas island presented by Prof. J. F. Rothrock 93 



Dr. John A. Kyder, Philadelphia 89 



