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in extending the works of MM. Villa Nueva and Neumayer, and thejneans 

 of doing so, and that the Committee he requested to report to the Society 

 at as early a date as possible. 



And the meeting was adjourned by the President. 



Stated Meeting, December 4, 1885. 



Present, 16 members. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Dr. Horace Jayne, a newly-elected member, was presented 

 to the Chair, and took his seat. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Naturfor- 

 schende Gesellschaft and the Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipzig ; 

 K. P. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin ; Societe de Geo- 

 graphic and L' Alliance Scientifique Universelle, Paris; Nature ; 

 Society of Antiquaries, London ; Canadian Institute ; Geologi- 

 cal and Natural History Survey of Canada ; Boston Society of 

 Natural History ; Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cam- 

 bridge; Mr. Charles S. Sargent, of Brookline, Mass.; Yale 

 College ; American Chemical Society and the New York 

 Academy of Sciences; Mr. W. J. Potts, of Camden, N. J; 

 Franklin Institute, the American Fire Insurance Co., Drs. W. 

 S. W. Kuschenberger and Persifor Frazer, Messrs. Alex. E. 

 Harvey, Henry Phillips, Jr., McCalla & Stavely, and Francis 

 Jordan, Jr., of Philadelphia ; Johns Hopkins University, Balti- 

 more ; United States National Museum, United States Geo- 

 logical Survey and the Chief Signal Officer of the United 

 States Army, Washington, D. C. ; Mr. Jed. Hotchkiss, of 

 Staunton, Va., and Mr. G. W. Hough, of Chicago. 



Letters of envoy were read from the Canadian Institute, 

 Toronto ; the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore ; U. S. 

 Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 



