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Stated Meeting October 3, /pod. 



President Smith in the Chair. 



Dr. Herbert Donaldson, a newly elected member, was presented 

 to the Chair and took his seat in the Society. 



Acknowledgments of elections to membership were received 

 from 



Prof. Charles A. Hastings. 

 Prof. Arthur Gordon Webster. 

 Prof. Adolf Engler. 

 Prof. Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeleff. 

 Invitations were received from 



The University of Aberdeen, *to be represented at the celebra- 

 tion of its Ouatercentenary, in September, 1906. 



From the University of Pennsylvania, to be represented at the 

 dedication of the Engineering Building in October, 1906. 



From the International Congress for the Study of Polar Re- 

 gions, to participate in the Congress to be held at Brussels in Sep- 

 tember, 1906. 



Communications were received 



From the California Academy of Sciences, thanking the So- 

 ciety for its resolution of sympathy of April 17th last, and accepting 

 the offer of a set of the Transactions and Proceedings of this Society 

 as a contribution towards the rehabilitation of the Academy's library. 

 From The President making the following appointments : 

 General A. W. Greely, U. S. A., to represent the Society at 

 the International Congress for the Study of Polar Regions. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie to represent the Society at the Quater- 

 centenary of the University of Aberdeen. 



Prof. Angelo Heilprin to represent the Society at the Tenth 

 International Geological Congress. 



The decease of the following members was announced : 

 George Tucker Bispham, Newport, R. I., on July 28, 1906, 



aet. 68. 

 Edward Coles, at Bar Harbor, Maine, on August 4, 1906, set. 69. 

 Robert Coleman Hall Brock, at Philadelphia on August 8, 1906, 

 set. 45. 



