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Stated Meeting, March 5, 1886. 

 Present, 22 members. 

 President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Dr. I. Minis Hays, Dr. John W. Holland and Mr. Inman 

 Horner, newly-elected members, were present and took their 

 seats. 



Donations were announced from Anthropologische Gesell- 

 schaft, Wien ; Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Anthropologie, Eth- 

 nologie und Urgeschichte, Miinchen ; Astronomische Nach- 

 richten, Kiel ; Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipzig ; Academie 

 Eoyale de Belgique ; Societe Americaine de France and Insti- 

 tution Ethnographique, Paris; Royal Society, Meteorological 

 Council, Royal Astronomical Society, and "Nature," Lon- 

 don ; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston ; 

 American Journal of Science, New Haven ; American Chemi- 

 cal Society, and the publisher of " The Forum," New York ; 

 Hon. Thomas H. Dudley, Camden, N. J. ; Academy of Natu- 

 ral Sciences ; Mercantile Library ; publishers of the American 

 Naturalist ; Messrs. William Dennis Marks, "William S. 

 Auchincloss, Samuel Wagner, Henry Phillips, Jr., and Hon. 

 Richard Yaux, Philadelphia ; Mr. Waters S. Chillson, Palo 

 Alto, Penna. ; Mr. H. B. Plumb, Peely, Penna.; Johns Hop- 

 kins University, Baltimore ; Chemical Society, Bureau of 

 Education, Census Office and United States Geological Survey, 

 Washington ; State Historical Society, Iowa, and University 

 of California. 



Letters were read from the Laboratory of Natural History 

 and Biology of Dennison University, Granville, Ohio, request- 

 ing exchanges, which, on motion, was so ordered, to begin with 

 No. 121 of the Proceedings; from Rev. T. P. Hughes request- 

 ing the subscription of the Society to his Dictionary of Islam. 



Letters accepting membership were read from Lieut. J. B. 

 Murdock, U. S. Navy (Norfolk, Ya., Feb. 27th, 1886); Dr. H. 

 A. Hagan (Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 26th, 1886); Robert N. 



