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[Dec. n». 



the Royal Academy and Eo^-al Obpervatoiy of Belgium; the 

 Geographical Society at .Paris; the Annales des Mines; the 

 Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the Meteorological 

 Council of the Eoyal Society, and London Nature ; Mr. J. 

 Lowthian Bell; Dr. Benjamin Ward Richardson; Mr. E. W. 

 Maunder ; the Natural llistory Society of Northimiberland, 

 Durham and New Castle-upon-Tyne ; the Boston Society of 

 Natural History; the Museum of Comparative Zoology ; the 

 American Society of Civil Engineers; Yale College; the 

 Meteorological Observatory of New York ; the College of 

 Physicians ; the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania ; 

 the Johns Hopkins University ; the U. S. Bureau of Eth- 

 nology, and Coast and Geodetic Survey ; Rev. Stephen D. 

 Peet, of Chicago; the National Academy of Sciences, and the 

 National Observatory of Cordoba. Also, a valuable set of 

 books on India, bequeathed to the Society by the late Jolin 

 Biddle, Esq., of Philadelphia. 



Mr. Vaux read by appointment an obituary notice of the 

 late Mr. Henry M. Phillips. 



Dr. DaCosta read by appointment an obituary notice of the 

 late Samuel D. Gross, M. D. 



Prof. Cope communicated a paper entitled " Twelfth Con- 

 tribution to the Herpetology of Tropical America." 



Mr. Ashburner described the recent publications of the 

 Second Geological Survey of the State. 



The Committee on two applications for the Magellanic 

 premium reported adversely to the applications. 



The I'eport of the Finance Committee was read and 

 ap}>roved, and the appropriations for 1885 recommended therein 

 Avere adopted, and the meeting was adjourned. 



The remarks of Mr. Ashburner were as follows : — 



In 1874 tlie Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania was organized. 



Up to the present time tbere have been issued sixty reports (edition of 

 5000 copies) of progress and eleven atlases of maps and sections, in octavo 

 volumes, to accompany these reports. In addition to these, within the last 

 month, there has been published a large atlas of unfolded sheets of the 

 Anthracite Survey, constituting the first part of a series of similar atlases 

 which will ultimately form the grand atlas of the survey. A copy of 



