Nov. 6, 1885.] ^1«5 



Stated Meeting, November 6, 1885. 



Present, 18 members. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Mr. William John Potts, a newly -elected member, was pre- 

 sented to the Chair and took his seat. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Deutsche 

 Geologische Gesellschaft, Berlin ; Naturhistorischer Verein and 

 Prof. J. Lehmann of Bonn ; Schweizerische Naturforschende 

 Gesellschaft, Luzerne ; E. Accademia dei Lincei, Eome ; K. Is- 

 tituto Veneto di Scienze, &c, Venice ; Academie Eoyale de 

 Belgique ; Eoyal Geographical Society, Meteorological Coun- 

 cil, Eoyal Meteorological Society, Nature, Messrs. Joseph Prest- 

 wich, C. W. King, Wm. Barlow and Dr. Benjamin Ward 

 Eichardson of London ; the Philological Society, Cambridge, 

 England ; the Canadian Institute, Toronto ; Natural History 

 Society, Montreal ; Essex Institute, Harvard University, Mu- 

 seum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. ; and Ameri- 

 can Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. ; American Journal 

 of Science, New Haven ; American Chemical Society, Meteor- 

 ological Observatory of New York ; the Young Men's Library 

 at Buffalo ; Mr. John B. Smith of Brooklyn ; the Engineers' 

 Club, Franklin Institute, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 

 Dr. J. M. Hays, Prof. E. D. Cope and Messrs. Henry Phillips, 

 Jr., McCalla & Stavelv, and Eev. H. Clay Trumbull, of Phil- 

 adelphia; Johns Hopkins University and Prof. Ira Eemsen of 

 Baltimore ; the United States Fish Commission, National Mu- 

 seum, Naval Observatory, Geological Survey, the Department 

 of State and War Department ; Mr. Jed. Hotchkiss of Staunton, 

 Va. ; the Elliott Society of Science and Art, Charleston, S. C; 

 and the Society of Natural History, Cincinnati. 



Letters of envoy were received from Die Schweiz. Gesell- 

 schaft (Berne) ; Wm. Barton (London) ; United States Geologi- 

 cal Survey (Washington, D. C.) ; Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology (Cambridge Mass.) ; Canadian Institute, Toronto 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXIII. 122. 2n. PRINTED MARCH P, 1886. 



