1890.] lUd 



Stated Meeting, May 0, 1890. 



Present 14 members. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



The annual program of the R. Academia Nederlandica, ex 

 legato Hoeufftiano, for 1891 was presented. 



Letters of envoy were received from the K. P. Meteorolo- 

 gisches Institut, Berlin ; Mr. Clifford P. MacCalla, Philadel- 

 phia ; Smithsonian Institution, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey, Washington. 



A letter of acknowledgment (Transactions xvi, 3) was re- 

 ceived from the Geological and Natural History Survey, 

 Ottawa, Canada. 



Letters of acknowledgment (129) were received from the K. 

 K. Sternwarte, Prag; Drs. Friederich Muller, Dionys Stur, 

 Edward Suess, Vienna. 



Letters of acknowledgment (130) were received from Drs. 

 Friederich S. Krauss, Vienna ; Naturforschende Gesellschaft 

 des Osterlandes, Altenburg; Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, 

 Hannover; K. Siichsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 

 Leipzig ; Verein fur Vaterlandische Naturkunde, Wlirtem- 

 berg ; Royal Society, Royal Meteorological, Royal Astronom- 

 ical Societies, Linnean Society, Society of Antiquaries, Lon- 

 don ; University Library, Cambridge, England. 



The Tokyo Anthropological Society was placed on the 

 exchange list to receive Proceedings from 119. 



A letter from Mrs. Harriet Maxwell Converse (New York 

 city, N. Y., April 28, 1890), soliciting subscriptions for a mon- 

 ument to Red Jacket, was read. 



The following letter was read : 



1325 Walnut Street. 



To the Honorable Frederick Fraley, and the Members op the 

 American Philosophical Society : 

 Gentlemen :— I have the honor to offer for your acceptance, the portrait 

 of my brother, the late Henry M. Phillips, formerly a member of your 

 Society, in whose memory The Prize Essay Fund was established. 



Very respectfully, 



Emily Phillips. 

 Philadelphia, May 1, 1890. 



