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Stated Meeting, October 16, 1885. 



Present, 16 members. 



Vice-President, Dr. Euschenberger, in the Chair. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Mining 

 Department, Melbourne;- Geological Survey of India; Kong- 

 liga Vetenskaps Societeten, Upsala ; Kongelige Nordiske Old- 

 skrift Selskab, Copenhagen ; Koniglich Sachsische Gesellschaft 

 der Wissenschaften, Leipzig ; Kaiserliche-Konigliche Geolo- 

 gische Keichsanstalt, Wien ; Naturhistorische Gesellschaft) 

 Niirnberg; Physikalisch-Okonomiscke Gesellschaft, Kooigs- 

 berg; Naturhistorische Gesellschaft and Messrs. Oberlehrer L. 

 Mejer and Fr. Beinholdof Hannover; Musee Eoyal d'Histoire 

 Naturelle and Academie Eoyale des Sciences, &c, de Belgique ; 

 Institution Ethnographique and Prof. Leon de Eosny of Paris ; 

 Eoyal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland ; the Eoyal 

 Society, Forestry and Mr. William Blades of London ; Eev. C. 

 W. King of Cambridge, England ; the Brooklyn Library and 

 Mr. J. B. Smith, Editor of Entomologica Americana; College 

 of Pharmacy, Prof. E. D. Cope and Messrs. Henry Phillips, 

 Jr., and E. A. Gieseler of Philadelphia ; the United States 

 National Museum, Dr. A. S. Gatschet and Mr. J. H. Hickcox, 

 publisher, of "Washington; Mr. Charles C. Jones, Jr., of Au- 

 gusta ; Chicago Historical Society ; Eev. Stephen D. Peet ; 

 State Historical Society, Iowa, and the State Historical Society 

 of Wisconsin. 



Letters of envoy were read from the K. Sachsische Gessell- 

 schaft, Leipzig ; Naturhist. Gesellschaft zu Hannover ; Societe 

 Eoyale des Sciences a Upsal ; Meteorological Office, London, 

 IT. S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C. ; Elliott Society 

 of Science, Charleston, S. C. 



Letters of Acknowledgment were read from K. K. Central 

 Anstalt fur Meteorologie und Erdmagnetismus, Vienna (117, 

 118, 119); Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Emden (117, 118, 

 119) ; Societe Eoyale des Sciences, Upsal (113, 114, 115, 116 

 and Eegister); E. Accademia dei Lincei, Eome (116 and Eeg- 

 ister), and requesting certain old numbers of Proceedings and 

 Transactions (Procs. I— VI, XII, Trans. O. S., I— IV, N. S. 



