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Stated Meeting, February 19, 1886. 

 Present, 19 members. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Donations were received from the following: Geological 

 Survey of India ; Magyar Tudomanyos Akademie, Buda- 

 pesth ; Numismatische Gesellschaft, Wien ; Deutsche Gesell- 

 schaft fur Anthropologic, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, Mu- 

 nich ; Astronomische Nachrichten, Kiel ; Zoologischer Anzei- 

 ger, Leipzig; Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Frieburg; E. 

 Accademia dei Lincei, Kome ; Ecole des Mines and Societe 

 de Geographie, Paris ; E. Academia de la Historia, Madrid ; 

 Eoyal Geographical Society, Journal of Forestry, "The 

 Asclepiad '* and " Nature," London ; Eoyal Geographical 

 Society of Ireland ; Harvard University ; Ehode Island His- 

 torical Society; New York Academy of Sciences and the 

 Astor Library ; Brooklyn Entomological Society ; College 

 of Pharmacy, Dr. Daniel G. Brinton and Messrs. W. S. Baker, 

 Henry Phillips, Jr., and Charles A. Ashburner, of Philadel- 

 phia; Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania ; War Depart- 

 ment, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education and 

 U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Washington, D. C. ; 

 State Board of Health of Tennessee ; Chicago Historical Society, 

 and the California Academy of Sciences. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Magyar Tudoman- 

 yos Akademie (Buda-Pesth), and the California Academy of 

 Sciences, San Francisco. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Naturfor- 

 schende Gesellschaft, at Emden. 



A letter was read from the California Academy of Sciences 

 enclosing a list of its duplicates for sale. 



An obituary notice of the late George Whitney, written by 

 Mr. William Sellers, was read by the Secretaries. 



The Committee on Prof. Cope's paper, appointed at the last 

 meeting of the Society, reported progress, and was continued. 



The President announced that he had appointed as the com- 



