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Letters acknowledging receipt of diploma were read from 

 Lord Coleridge, London, England ; Sir John Lubbock, High 

 Elms, Hayes, Beckenham, England. 



A letter was received from Dr. Asa Gray and Mr. C. S. Sar- 

 gent, requesting permission to have a copy made of the diary 

 of the elder Michaux, which was presented to the Society by 

 his son in 1824. The request was granted, with the restriction 

 that the copy was to be made in the Society's rooms under the 

 supervision of the Librarian. 



The Special Committee appointed October 16, 1885, to 

 examine the paper on Iguanidse presented by Prof. E. D. 

 Cope, for the Transactions, reported it to be worthy, and 

 recommended its publication with a suitable plate or plates. 



On motion, the report was adopted, and the Committee dis- 

 charged. 



A letter was read from Prof. Cope, requesting that the 

 paper should be printed in the Proceedings with a view to its 

 more speedy publication. 



The Secretaries stated that in the present condition of the 

 publications of the Society, Prof. Cope's paper would be more 

 speedily printed if, as originally intended, in the Transactions. 



On motion of Dr. Frazer, it was resolved that the Secreta- 

 ries be requested to inform Prof. Cope of the facts of the case, 

 and to ascertain in which form he prefers that the paper shall 

 appear. 



The death of W. B. Carpenter (London, Nov. 11, 1885) was 

 announced as having taken place in the seventy-third year of 

 his age. 



The President reported that, pursuant to resolution of the 

 Society, he had appointed Prof. J. P. Lesley to prepare an 

 obituary notice of the late James Macfarlane, and that Prof. 

 Lesley had signified his willingness. 



A letter was read from Prof. Weir Mitchell declining, for 

 sufficient reasons, the appointment to prepare an obituary 

 notice of the late George Leib Harrison. 



Dr. Brinton presented a paper on the Mangue language. 



Prof. Cope (through the Secretaries) presented the Thir- 



