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Stated Meeting^ May 7, 1885. 

 Present, 5 members. 



Mr. J. Blodgett Britton in the Chair. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Geologi- 

 cal Survey of India ; the Department of Mines at Melbourne ; 

 the Eoyal Society of Tasmania ; the Societe Imperiale Russe 

 de Geographic ; the Anthropologische Gesellschaft in Wien ; 

 the K. Statistisch-Topographische Bureau at Stuttgart ; the 

 Naturforschende Gesellschaft at Emden ; Dr. vom Eath of 

 Bonn ; the Statistika Central Byran ; the Reale Accademia 

 dei Lincei at Rome ; the Society Toscana di Scienze Naturali 

 in Pisa ; the Societe de Geographic at Paris ; Maisonneuve 

 Fr^res of Paris ; the Royal Astronomical Society, the Cobden 

 Club, and Nature, London ; Mr, F. J, R. Carulla of Swansea ; 

 the Boston Society of Natural History ; the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences; Mr. R. C. Winthrop, Jr., of Boston; 

 Prof. Edward C. Pickering of Cambridge ; the Rhode Island 

 Historical Society ; Dr. Henry Draper of New Haven ; the 

 Scientific Association at Meriden, Conn. ; the New York 

 Meteorological Observatory; the University of the State of 

 New York ; the Albany Institute ; the Brooklyn Entomologi- 

 cal Society ; the Buffalo Historical Society ; Mr. T. H, Dudley 

 of Camden ; the Franklin Institute ; the Engineers' Club, the 

 University of Pennsylvania, the American Naturalist, Mr. 

 Henry Phillips, Jr., and Prof. E. D. Cope, of Philadelphia ; 

 the Department of the Interior, and the Oficina Meteorologica 

 Argentina. 



Letters of envoy were read from the Naturforschende Ge- 

 sellschaft, Emden ; Albany Institute ; Department of State, 

 Washington, D. C. ; U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, 

 D. C. ; Geological Survey of India. 



Letters of acknowledgment were read from the Cincinnati 

 Society of Natural History (100-117) ; Observatorio Meteor- 

 ologico Central, Mexico (115) ; Royal Society of New South 



