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demia dei Lincei, Rome ; Societe Nationale des Sciences 

 Naturelles, Cherbourg; Societe des Antiquaires de France; 

 Societe Americaine de France ; Societe d' Anthropologic ; 

 Societe Zoologique and Societe de Geographie, Paris; 

 R. Academia de la Historia, Madrid; Royal Astro- 

 nomical and R. Geographical Societies, Meteorological Coun- 

 cil, Journal of Forestry, and Nature, London ; Literary 

 and Philosophical Society, Liverpool ; Philosophical Society, 

 Glasgow; Boston Society of Natural History, Mr. Robert 

 Nixon Tophan, Cambridge, Mass. ; American Antiquarian 

 Society, Worcester; Meteorological Observatory of New 

 York; the Mercantile Library Association of Brooklyn; 

 Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia, Mercantile Library and 

 Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr. ; Johns Hopkins University ; Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, United States Fish Commission and Mr. 

 Samuel H. Scudder, of "Washington ; Washburn College, 

 Topeka, and the University of California. 



Letters of envoy were read from La Societe Nationale des 

 Antiquaires de France (Paris); Geological Survey of India 

 (Calcutta) ; Fondation de P. Teyler van der Hulst (Harlem) ; 

 Ministere de l'Interieur (Bruxelles). 



Letters of acknowledgment were read from Konigliche 

 Bibliothek, Berlin (117, 118, 119); K. K. Sternwarte, Prag 

 (116) ; Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Mass. (Trans- 

 actions IX); Chief Signal Officer U.S.A., Washington, D. C. 

 (Proceedings 96-121; Transactions XV, XVI, i); Fondation 

 van der Hulst, Harlem (Proceedings 117, 118, 119); Japetus 

 Steenstrup, Copenhagen (116, 117, 118, 119); Royal Society 

 of London (116) ; Royal Society of Victoria, Melbourne (114, 

 115). 



Letters accepting membership in the Society were read from 

 Prof. Guiseppe Sergi (Nov. 3, 1885 ; via Pastrengo 1, Roma, 

 Italia); Prof. Louis Pasteur (Paris, Nov. 5, 1885); Prof. Ernst 

 Haeckel, Jena, Nov. 4, 1885) ; Prof. Dr. Josef von Lenhossek 

 (Buda Pesth, Nov. 4, 1885) ; Prof. J. Pomialowsky (St. Peters- 

 burg, Oct. 21, 1885) ; Dr. Hermann Rollett (Baden bei Wien, 

 Nov. 5, 1885). 



