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(Dec. 3,1866. 



merit of Mines, Melbourne; Comite Geologique, Academie Im- 

 periale des Sciences, St. Petersburg ; Imperial Society of 

 Friends of Natural Sciences, Anthropology and Ethnology, 

 Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes, Moscow; Society of Nat- 

 uralists of New Russia, Odessa ; Mr. Emile Schwcerer, Colmar, 

 Alsace; Foreign Office at the Hague; R. Istituto di Studi 

 Superiori, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale V. E., Firenze ; R. 

 Accademia dei Lincei, Rome ; Ecole des Mines, Societe de 

 L'Enseignement Superieur, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 

 Paris; Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa; R. Meteorological 

 Society, Zoological Society, " Nature," Mr. John Hampden, 

 London ; Essex Institute, Salem ; Rhode Island Historical So- 

 ciety, Providence ; Professor John S. Newberry, New York ; 

 The Buffalo Library ; Engineers' Club, Franklin Institute 

 Henry Phillips, Jr., Philadelphia ; Bureau of Education, The 

 Public Opinion Co., Washington ; University of California, 

 Berkeley; Observatorio Astronomico Nacional de Tacubaya, 

 Mexico ; Imperial Observatorio do Rio de Janeiro. 



A photograph of Mr. Carlier, of Paris, was received for the 

 Society's Album.' 



Dr. Harrison Allen read, by appointment, an obituary notice 

 of the late Dr. Albert H. Smith. The decease of Charles 

 Francis Adams (Boston, Nov. 21, get. 80) was announced, and 

 after remarks by Messrs. Dudley and McKean on the services 

 rendered to the United States by him during the Civil War, 

 the President was authorized, on motion, to appoint a proper 

 person to prepare the usual obituary notice. 



The Committee on Publication reported that as the paper 

 offered for the Transactions, November 5, by Professor Cope, 

 had already appeared in a magazine for November its pub- 

 lication by the Society was not desirable, and that it should 

 be returned to the writer. Which, on motion, was so ordered. 



Nominations 1113-1150 were read. 



The proceedings of the Officers and Council, of which the 

 reading was postponed at the last meeting, were submitted. 



The Treasurer's Report was presented. 



And the Society was adjourned by the President. 



