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Stated Meeting^ November 4, 1864. 



Present, twenty-two members. 

 Professor Cresson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters accepting membership were received from Prof. 

 Tunner, dated Leoben, October 6th, and Dr. Schinz, dated 

 Strasburg, October 9th, 1864. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Geolo- 

 gical Institute, dated Vienna, September 19th, 1862 ; the 

 Royal Society, dated London, May 16th ; and the Linnean 

 Society, dated August 8th, 1864. 



Letters of envoi were received from the Imperial Academy, 

 dated Vienna, June 23d ; the Royal Academy, dated Berlin, 

 February 29th ; and the Royal Academy, dated Madrid, 

 April 20th, 1864. 



Photographs for the Album were received from Mr. Peter 

 W. Sheafer, Prof. Tunner, and Dr. Schinz. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Societies 

 and Academies at Konigsberg, Berlin, Vienna, St. Gallen, 

 Frankfort on Maine, Bonn, Haarlem, and Madrid ; the In- 

 stitut de France ; the Royal, Royal Geographical, Chemical, 

 Zoological, and Linnean Societies, at London ; the Royal 

 Dublin Society ; Mr. Safford, of Cambridge ; Mr. Whitmore, 

 of Salem ; Rev. E. C. Jones, of Blockley ; Mr. Evans, of 

 Philadelphia, and the Franklin Institute. 



The death of Admiral Sir John Washington, a member of 

 this Society, at Havre, in the sixty-third year of his age, was 

 announced by the Secretary, who read an Obituary Notice of 

 the deceased from the last anniversary address of the Presi- 

 dent of the Royal Geographical Society. 



The Secretary presented a communication intended for the 

 Transactions, by Prof. Jacob Ennis, entitled " The Nebular 



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