570 



[iiov. 5, 



Baltimore ; U. S. National Museum, Washington ; Leander 

 McCormick University, University of Virginia ; Mr. William 

 Harden, Savannah; Prof. Henry S. Frieze, Ann Arbor; State 

 Historical Society, Iowa ; Mr. Adair Welcker, Sacramento. 



Letters of envoy were read as follows : The K. Preussische 

 Akademie der Wissenschaften ; the Canadian Geological and 

 Natural History Survey. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from K. K. 

 Sternwarte. Prag (122) ; Iapetus Steenstrup, Copenhagen (122); 

 State Library of Massachusetts, Boston (96-123) ; Oneida His- 

 torical Society, Utica, New York (123). 



A letter was read from the Deutsche Morgenlandische 

 Gesellschaft (in answer to one addressed to it by the Secre- 

 taries to know why it had never sent its publications to this 

 Society, although it had received for some years), stating that 

 it had considered the proceedings to have been the gift of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, and that it did not desire to exchange 

 with this Society. 



On motion, its name was ordered to be removed from the 

 list of exchanges. 



The "Eevue Litteraire et Scientifique" replied to a similar 

 query, and stated that the Redaction had ordered the exchange 

 to be discontinued. 



On motion, the exchange was ordered to be discontinued. 



The death of John S. Haines, Philadelphia, was announced 

 as having taken place on November 4, 18S6, in the sixty- 

 seventh year of his age. 



The President announced the appointment of Mr. Richard 

 Vaux to prepare the obituary of Judge Ludlow, and Prof. 

 John M. Maisch that of Dillwyn Parrish. 



Prof. Cope presented for the Transactions a paper on 

 " Lemurine Reversion in Human Dentition." 



The paper was referred to a Committee, consisting of Drs. 

 Brinton, Oliver and Jayne. 



Dr. D.G. Brinton read a paper on "The Conception of Love 

 in some American Languages." 



The Secretaries presented a paper on " The Facial Nerve of 



