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(with Yol. XXXI, 143), and requesting exchange ; which, on 

 motion, was granted and the Society placed on Exchange list. 



Letters accepting membership were read from W. J. A. 

 Bon will, M. D. (October 28, 1885, 1721 Locust St., Philadel- 

 phia); Thomas M. Cleemann, C. E. (October 19, 1885, 2135 

 Spruce St., Philadelphia) ; Wm. John Potts (529 Cooper St., 

 Camden, N. J., October 20, 1885) ; Prof. Edward North, LL.D. 

 (October 26, 1885, Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y.); Prof. 

 M. Scheie DeYere (October 20, 1885, University of Yirginia). 



Letters acknowledging receipt of diploma were read from 

 Prof. Henry S. Frieze (Ann Arbor, Mich.) ; Isaac Sharpless 

 (Haverford College P. O., Pa.) ; Prof. John W. Mallet (Uni- 

 versity of Yirginia) ; Prof. Walter LeConte Stevens (Hoboken, 

 N. J.). 



Letters were received from the Chief Signal Officer, U. S. A., 

 Washington, D. C, requesting certain Proceedings and Trans- 

 actions. 



On motion the Signal Office was placed on the Exchange 

 list and ordered to receive Proceedings. 



A letter was received from Prof. E. C. Pickering of Harvard 

 College Observatory, requesting a copy of Transactions, Yol. 

 IX, containing a paper by the late Eobert Treat Paine, which 

 was ordered to be sent. 



Letters were received from the Geological Survey of Canada, 

 Ottawa, acknowledging Nos. 116 and 119 ; E. W. Claypole 

 (Akron, Ohio), acknowledging Nos. 117, 118, 119, 120; Wm. 

 John Potts (Camden, N. J.), acknowledging Nos. 117, 118, 119, 

 120 ; Mr. Thomas M. Cleemann (Philadelphia), acknowledging 

 Nos. 117, 118, 119, 120. 



Dr. W. S. W. Euschenberger read, by appointment, a sketch 

 of the life of the late Eobert E. Rogers, M. D., LL.D., with 

 biographical notices of his father and brothers ; after which the 

 President and Dr. Horn made some appropriate and feeling 

 remarks on the subject, 



The death of Thomas Davidson (Brighton, England), was 

 announced as having taken place on October 16, 18S5, in the 

 69th year of his age. 



