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On motion, the Secretaries were directed to have the Laws 

 and Regulations of the Society, as adopted this evening, printed 

 for the use of the members. 



The report of the Finance Committee was presented and 

 accepted and the appropriations passed for the year 1886. 



And the meeting was adjourned by the President. 



Stated Meeting, January 1, 1886. 



Present, 11 members. 

 President Fraley, in the Chair. 

 Donations for the Library were received from the Royal 

 Observatory, Cape of Good Hope ; Asiatic Society of Japan ; 

 Anthropologische Gesellschaft, Wien ; Deutsche Gesellschaft 

 fur Anthropologic, &c, Miiachen ; Astronomische Nachrichten, 

 Kiel ; Zoologische Anzeiger, Leipzig ; Archives Neerlandaises, 

 Haerlem; R. Accademia dei Lincei, Rome ; Osservatorio della 

 University di Torino ; Societe de Geographie, Societe d' An- 

 thropologic, Musee Guimet, Institut de France and Ecole des 

 Mines, Paris; the Royal Society, Zoological Society, Geological 

 Society, Royal Meteorological Society, the Lords Commission- 

 ers of the Admiralty, Meteorological Council, Greenwich Ob- 

 servatory and Nature, London ; Canadian Institute ; Mr. Par- 

 ker Pillsbury of Concord, N. H.; the publishers of the Ameri- 

 can Architect and Every Other Saturday, Boston ; Meteoro- 

 logical Observatory, New York ; Journal of Medical Sciences, 

 Dr. J. W. Holland, Prof. E. D. Cope, Messrs. Henry Phillips, 

 Jr., E. A. Barber and R. S. Culin, Philadelphia ; Johns Hop- 

 kins University, Baltimore ; Philosophical Society, Washing- 

 ton; the War Department, National Academy of Sciences, 

 United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Bureau of 

 Ethnology, Washington, D. C. ; State Board of Health, Ten- 

 nessee; Prof. H. S. Frieze of Ann Arbor, Mich.; Nebraska 

 State Historical Society ; Mr. Wm. M. Stewart of San Fran- 

 cisco ; publisher of the West- American Scientist, San Diego, 

 Cal.; and the Observatorio Meteorologico-Magnetico Central 

 de Mpxico. 



