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great Trap Dyke across Southeastern Pennsylvania," to be ac- 

 companied by a map, not to cost over $25. 



Permission was given the Secretaries to have a plate pre- 

 pared at an estimated cost of not over $30 for Prof. Cope's 

 jDaper on the Paleontology of Brazil (read April 17, 1885). 



The President reported that he had appointed Prof. W. H. 

 Pancoast to prepare an obituary notice of the late Prof. Ellers- 

 lie Wallace, and that as yet no person had accepted the same 

 duty for the late Titian K. Peale. 



The proceedings of the officers and Council were submitted. 



Nominations Nos. 1049-1057, and new nominations Nos. 

 1057-1068, were read. 



The rough minutes were read and the Society was adjourned 

 by the President. 



Stated Meeting^ June 19, 1885. 



Present, 13 members. 



President, Mr. Fealey, in the Chair. 



Mr. Samuel Wagner, a newly elected member, was presented 

 to the Chair and took his seat. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Physika- 

 lische Central-Observatorium at St. Petersburg ; the Societas 

 pro Fauna et Flora Fennica at Helsingfors ; the K. B, Akade- 

 mie der Wissenschaften and the Miinchener Sternwarte ; the 

 K. K. Geologische Eeichsanstalt ; the Zoologischer Anzeiger, 

 Leipzig , the R. P. Akademie der Wissenschaften and the 

 Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft at Berlin ; the K. Gesell- 

 schaft der Wissenschaften at Gottingen ; the Societe de Phy- 

 sique et d'Histoire Naturelle at Geneva ; the Musee Roy ale 

 d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique ; the R. Accademia dei 

 Lincei ; the Societa Toscana di Scienze Naturali ; the Societe 

 de Geographic at Paris ; the Royal Geographical and Astro- 

 nomical Societies and Nature, London ; the Philosophical 



