1886.1 '"^ 



of Trade, Publishers of the "American Naturalist," Mr. Henry 

 Phillips, Jr., and Dr. J. Minis Hayes ; Dr. J. Curwen of War- 

 ren, Pa.; the Johns Hopkins University; U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission, U. S. Geological Survey, Philosophical Society of 

 Washington, D. C. ; University of Virginia; Georgia Historical 

 Society ; Eev. Stephen D. Peet of Chicago, 111.; Mercantile 

 Library Association, San Francisco, and the Imp. Observatorio 

 do Rio de Janeiro. 



Photographs for the Society's album were received from 

 Lieut. A. B. Wyckoff, U. S. N., Hon W. Townsend, and E. 

 F. im Thurn. 



On motion, the President was requested to transmit the 

 thanks of the Society to the Royal Society for the gift of its 

 Catalogue of Scientific Papers. 



On motion, the South African Philosophical Society (Cape 

 Town), and the Oneida County (N. Y.) Historical Society were 

 placed on the exchange list to receive Proceedings from No. 96. 



Acceptances of Membership : Prof. Serge Nikotin (St. 

 Petersburg, March 12, 1886), Lieut. Geo. L. Anderson, U. S. 

 Army (West Point, N. Y., March 22, 1886). 



Letters of Envoy were received from the South African 

 Philosophical Society, Cape Town, Africa ; Bureau of Longi- 

 tudes, Paris ; Royal Society, Bath and West of England Society, 

 and the publishers of the " Diplomatic Review," London ; U. 

 S. Geological Survey, Washington. 



Acknowledgments for No. 122, as follows: Portland Society 

 of Natural History ; New Hampshire Historical Society ; Profs. 

 Robt. C. Winthrop and S. P. Sharpies of Boston; Prof. H. A. 

 Hagan of Cambridge, Mass.; American Antiquarian Society, 

 Worcester ; Essex Institute ; Rhode Island Historical Society, 

 and Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic 

 Industry ; Connecticut Historical Society ; Mr. Geo. F. Dun- 

 ning of Farmington, Conn. ; University of the City of New 

 York ; Astor Library ; Profs. Henry M. Baird and John J. 

 Stevenson of New York ; U. S. Military Academy, West Point; 

 Profs. James E. Oliver and T. Fred'k Crane of Ithaca, N .Y. ; 

 Prof. C. H. F. Peters of Clinton, N. Y.; New Jersey Historical 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXIII. 123. 3E. PRINTED AUGUST 9, 1886. 



