1885.] 3^^ 



tion ; the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco, and 

 the Escola de Minas di Ouro Preto, at Rio de Janeiro. 



Acknowledgments for No. 117 were read from the Wyoming 

 Historical and Geological Society; New Bedford Public Li- 

 brary ; University of California ; Cornell University ; Kansas 

 State Historical Society ; Dr. Persifor Frazer ; Scientific Li- 

 brary, U. S. Patent Office (Transactions XIV, XV, XVI, i) ; 

 Young Men's Library, Buffalo, N. Y. (Proceedings 96-117; 

 Transactions XIV, XV, XVI, i). 



Letters of envoy were read from the Meteorol<:)gical office 

 (London, England) ; publishers of Nature (London, England) 

 and the U. S. Geological Survey (Washington, D. C). 



Deaths of the following members were announced : 



George Whitney (Philadelphia), born 1815, died March 6, 

 1885. 



Prof. Ellerslie Wallace, M.D. (Philadelphia), born 1819, 

 died March 9, 1885. 



Titian R. Peale (Philadelphia), born October 10, 1799, died 

 March 13, 1885. 



Frederick Theodore Frerichs (Berlin), born March 14, 1819, 

 died March 14, 1885. 



On motion, the President was authorized to appoint suitable 

 persons to prepare obituary notices of said decedents. 



A letter was read (dated Philadelphia, March 11th, 1885), 

 from Mr. Thomas Meehan accepting the appointment as Chair- 

 man of the Committee on the Michaux legacy; from Mr. 

 Conyers Button (dated Germantown, March 13th, 1885), re- 

 questing permission to have a photographic copy made of the 

 portrait of Dr. Joseph Priestley, owned by the Society, 

 which is in the Society's meeting room ; likewise one from W. 

 Curtis Taylor, Philadelphia, to the same effect. On motion 

 the request was granted, with the promise that the original be 

 not removed from the Society's possession. 



Dr. Daniel G. Brinton read a paper on the Philosophic Gram- 

 mar of American Languages, as set forth by Wilhelm Von 

 Humboldt. 



Dr, Brinton also presented a paper by Dr. H. Rink, of Copen- 



