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ister of Papers, &c., were read from the Numismatic and Anti- 

 quarian Society of Philadelphia ; Smithsonian Institution ; 

 Library Company of Philadelphia; New Jersey Historical 

 Society: Pennsylvania Historical Society; College of Physi- 

 cians; Connecticut Historical Society; Wyoming Historical 

 and Geographical Society ; American Antiquarian Society ; 

 Essex Institute ; University of the City of New York ; United 

 States Naval Institute; Georgi^ Historical Society ; Chicago 

 Historical Society ; the United States Military Academy ; 

 Cincinnati Observatory ; Wisconsin Historical Society ; West 

 Chester Philosophical Society; New Hampshire Historical 

 Society; Boston Public Library; Boston Ath^eneum, and the 

 New York State Library ; Prof. W. LeConte Stevens ; Prof. 

 Thomas C. Porter; Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr.; Prof. John J. 

 Stevenson; Prof. C. H. F. Peters; Prof. J. M. Hart; Mr. 

 Thomas Hockley (114, 115, 116); Prof. J. W. Moore (114, 

 115, 116); Kansas Historical Society. 



Letters of acknowledgment were also read from Eoyal 

 Society of Edinburgh (114 and 115); E. Instituto Lombardo ; 

 Statistical Society of London (115); Societas Fauna et Flora 

 Finnica (107, 108, 113, 114, 115), asks for 109, 110, 111, 112. 



Letters accepting membership in the Society were read from 

 Prof. John W. Mallet, Prof. WilHam Osier, Prof. Samuel W. 

 Gross, Prof. James C. Wilson, Prof. George Inman Kiche, Hon. 

 George L. Harrison, Hon. Samuel J. Eandall, Mr. Edward H. 

 Weil, Mr. Thomas Hockley, Mr. Samuel Wagner, of Phila- 

 delphia; from Prof. Lyman B. Hall, Ph.D., Haverford Col- 

 lege, Pa.; and Prof. John W. Moore, M.D., Lafayette College, 

 Easton, Pa. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Department of the 

 Interior, and La Societe Eoyale des Sciences d'Upsal. 



Letters were read from the Bureau of Ethnology (Washing- 

 ton) asking for several copies of Proceedings No. 115 ; from 

 the Societas pro Flora et Fauna Funica, asking for Proceedings 

 Nos. 109, 110, 111, 112; from the Mercantile Library Company 

 of Philadelphia, asking for certain volumes to complete its set 

 of Transactions, all of which requests were granted. 



