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vation at Niagara, Albany ; Academy of Sciences, Dr. J. S. 

 Newberry, Mr. J. Bleecker Miller, Messrs. Ivison, Blakeman 

 & Co., New York ; Mr. Franklin Leonard Pope, Elizabeth, N. 

 J. ; Academy of Natural Sciences, Mercantile Library, Messrs. 

 Edwin A. Barber, W. C. Blelock, D. G. Brinton, E. t>. Cope, 

 Walter M. James, Henry Phillips, Jr., Philadelphia ; Maryland 

 Academy of Sciences, Baltimore ; U. S. Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, Fish Commission, Geological Survey, Bureau of Edu- 

 cation, Smithsonian Institution, Secretary of War, Dr. Albert 

 S. Gatschet, Hon. Charles O'Neill, Washington, D. C. 



Mrs. Jane Eittenhouse Wilson presented a cornelian said to 

 have been formerly worn by Dr. Benjamin Franklin, of which 

 she gave the following account : 



Benjamin Franklin, during his attendance at the Convention that 

 adopted the Declaration of Independence, wore a certain watch chain on 

 which was a cornelian charm. 



This chain and charm he gave to a personal friend, a veteran of the war 

 of 1812, named Daniel Leman, who gave it to his friend, 



Mrs. Jane Rittenhouse "Wilson, 



One of the Rittenhouse family. 



The following deaths were reported : 



M. Louis A. C. Carlier, Paris, March 19, 1890, set. 87. 

 Mr. Frederick Graff, Philadelphia, March 30, 1890, set. 73. 



On motion, the President was requested to appoint suitable 

 persons to prepare the usual obituary notices. 



A paper on "Fresh Water Infusoria," by Dr. Alfred C. 

 Stokes (Trenton, New Jersey), was presented through the 

 Secretaries. 



A paper on the " Asiatic Affinities of the Malay Language," 

 by C. Staniland Wake, was presented by the Secretaries. 



Pending nomination No. 1209 and new nominations Nos. 

 1210, 1211 and 1212 were read. 



