"" [Jan. 2, 



Stated Meeting^ January S, 1885. 



Present, 12 members. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the Cliair. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from Prof. Alex- 

 ander Wincbell (115); Smithsonian Institution (115); and 

 L' Academic des Sciences, Lisbonne (Trans. N. S. XVI., i., and 

 Proc. 112, 113). 



Letters of envoy were received from the Department of the 

 Interior, Washington, D.C., and the Hamilton Association of 

 Canada. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Geologi- 

 cal Survey of India ; the Society of Naturalists at Eiga ; the 

 Batavian Society of Experimental Philosophy; the Eoyal 

 Academy of Belgium ; the Eoyal Academy of History at 

 Madrid; the Eoyal Astronomical Society; Mr. E. W. Maun- 

 der, Mr. John Evans and Sir Eichard Owen, of London ; the 

 Hamilton Association ; the Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory ; the American Journal of Science ; the Chemical Society 

 of New York ; Vassar Brothers' Institute ; the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences and the Library Company, of Philadelphia ; 

 Dr. Persifor Frazer ; Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr. ; Haverford Col- 

 lege ; the American Journal of Philology ; Johns Hopkins 

 University ; the U. S. Naval Observatory and the Department 

 of the Interior. 



A letter was received from Gen. Hazen, Chief Signal Officer, 

 U. S. A., requesting a copy of the Society's Catalogue, which 

 was ordered to be sent. 



A letter was received from Alfred Holder, Vienna, notifying 

 the Society that h^ could supply the residue of " Die Gastero- 

 poden * *, von E. Hoernes and M. Auinger." 



Prof. E. D. Cope made a communication on the Fossils of 

 the Miocene Period of the Dominion of Canada, and exhibited 

 specimens of the same. 



