1885.] ^1 



Stated Meeting, December 18, 1885. 



Present, 21 members. 



President, Mr. Fkaley, in the Chair. 



Mr. Francis Jordan, Jr., a lately-elected member of the So- 

 ciety, was presented to the Chair and took his seat. 



Donations for the Library were received from Prof. J. 

 Pomialowsky, of St. Petersburg ; the Astronomische Nach- 

 richten, Kiel ; Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipzig ; Flora Ba- 

 tava, Leiden ; the Academie E. de Belgique ; E. Accademia 

 dei Lincei, Eoma ; Ecole des Mines and Societe de Geographie, 

 Paris; E. Academia de la Historia, Madrid; Geological Society, 

 Meteorological Council, Journal of Forestry, and Nature, Lon- 

 don ; Philological Society, Cambridge, England ; the publishers 

 of the American Architect and Every Other Saturday, Boston ; 

 American Journal of Science ; the publishers of the Critic ; 

 Brooklyn Entomological Society ; Brooklyn Library ; College 

 of Pharmacy, Messrs. Edward L. Wilson, Henry Phillips, Jr., 

 and E. S. Culin, Drs. W. S. W. Euschenberger and Charles A. 

 Oliver, and the executors of Mr. Henry Seybert, of Philadel- 

 phia ; Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania ; Johns 

 Hopkins University, editors of the Journal of Philology, and 

 the Chemical Journal, Baltimore ; the War Department and 

 the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey ; editors of the 

 Hoosier Naturalist, Valparaiso, Ind. ; Eev. Stephen D. Peet, of 

 Chicago, 111. ; the Iowa State Historical Society ; University 

 of California ; Observatorio Astronomico Nacional de Tacu- 

 baya, and the Museum National de Eio de Janeiro. 



Letters of envoy were received from the E. Society of Mel- 

 bourne, Australia ; the Meteorological Commission, London ; 

 the Philosophical Society of Cambridge ; the Canadian Insti- 

 tute, Toronto, Canada. 



A circular was read from the Nat. Hist, and Physical So- 

 ciety of Geneva, with the conditions of the De Candolle prize. 



A circular was read from Stearns & Co., Detroit, Mich., 



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