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schaft and Verein fiir Geographie und Statistik, Frankfurt- am- 

 Main ; Fondation Teyler, Harlem ; Academie Royale de Bel- 

 gique ; Societe Royale des Antiquaires du Nord, Copenhagen ; 

 Statistika Central Byran, Stockholm ; R. Accademia dei Lin- 

 cei, Rome; Societe de Geographie, Ecole Poly technique and 

 Societe Linneene de Paris ; R. Academia de la Historia, 

 Madrid ;• Royal Astronomical and Geographical Societies, 

 Meteorological Council, Kew Observatory, Journal of Forestry, 

 Nature, London ; Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford ; American 

 Academy and Boston Society of Natural History ; Harvard 

 University and Professors Eben Norton Horsford and B. M. 

 Everhart of Cambridge, Mass. ; American Antiquarian Society, 

 "Worcester; American Journal of Science, New Haven; New 

 York Historical Society, American Oriental Society and Prof. 

 J. S. Newberry of New York ; Franklin Institute, Numis- 

 matic and Antiquarian Society, College of Pharmacy, Editors 

 of The American Naturalist, Indian Rights Association, Mr. 

 Henry Phillips, Jr., and Dr. Isaac Lea, of Philadelphia; Johns 

 Hopkins University and the American Journal of Archee- 

 ology, Baltimore ; United States Geological Survey and the 

 Anthropological Society of Washington ; Prof. Henry S. 

 Frieze of Ann Arbor, Mich.; and the Editors of The West- 

 American Scientist, San Diego, Cal. 



Dr. Pliny Earle presented an engraving of himself for the 

 Society's Album. 



Letters of envoy were received from Societas pro Fauna et 

 Flora Fennica, Helsingfors, Finland ; Royal Society of Northern 

 Antiquaries, Copenhagen; Fondation Yan der Hulst, Haarlem, 

 Holland; Meteorological Office, London, England; U.S. Geologi- 

 cal Survey, Washington ; Prof. Henry S. Frieze, A.nn Arbor, 

 Mich. 



The Physikalisches Central- Observatorium, St. Petersburg, 

 requested by letter Proceedings No. 109, which, on motion, was 

 granted. A> circular announcing the programme of the U. S. 

 Naval Observatory for the year 1886 was submitted. A letter 

 was read from Henry M. Hugunin (Chicago, Jan. 26, 1886), 

 suggesting that the beginning of the year should more properly 

 be taken from December 21st, as on that day the southward 



