1885.] '^'" 



Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr.; Mr. C. Davis Englisli ; Dr. D. Jayne & 

 Son-, the United States National Museum; the United States 

 Geological Survey; the Department of the Interior; the Johns 

 Hopkins University ; Eev. Stephen D. Peet, of Chicago ; the 

 State Historical Society at Iowa City, and the University of 

 California. 



Mr Edward H. Weil, a newly-elected member, was presented 

 to the Chair and took his seat. 



Acknowledgments for Proceedings 117 were received from 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, &;c.; The Peabody Museum 

 (Cambridge, Mass.); Connecticut Historical Society ; New 

 Hampshire Historical Society ; Ehode Island Historical So- 

 ciety ; New Jersey Historical Society ; Cincinnati Observatory ; 

 United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. ; 

 Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia ; Georgia 

 Historical Society ; Wisconsin Historical Society; United States 

 Naval Institute at Annapolis, Md. ; Essex Institute ; Chicago 

 Historical Society; University of the City of New York; 

 American Antiquarian Society; Philosophical Society of 

 West Chester; University of California; Public Library of 

 New Bedford; United States Geological Survey (116, 117); 

 Prof. J. W. Moore, Easton, Pa.; Henry Phillips, Jr., Philadel- 

 phia. 



A letter was read from Mr. C. Stuart Patterson (dated Phila- 

 delphia, January 20, 1885), accepting membership in this 

 Society. 



Letter of envoy from the Meteorological Office (London, 

 January, 1885) was read. 



A letter was read from the Young Mens' Library, Buffalo, 

 N. Y., accompanying an envoy of certain of its own publica- 

 tions and stating that it had not received any of the Society's 

 Proceedings and Transactions since 1863. On motion it was 

 ordered that they should be sent and that the Library should 

 be continued on the list of the Society's exchanges. 



The Scientific Library of the United States Patent Ofiice 

 requested all Transactions after Yol. XIII, which were ordered 

 to be sent regularly as published. 



