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[March 3, 



The President was authorized to a})point suitable persons to 

 prepare obituary notices of each of the deceased. 



A letter of envoy was received from the Musee Guimet, 

 Lyons, dated February 3, 1882. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Offen- 

 bacher Verein fUr Naturkunde (108) ; American Statistical 

 Association, Boston (109) ; Mr. T. P. James (109) ; Yale 

 College Library, New Haven (109) ; Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr., 

 Philadelphia (109) ; and the Wyoming Historical and Geo- 

 logical Society, Wilkesbarre, Pa. (108, 109). 



A letter was received from the Librarian of the Franklin 

 Institute, dated February 21, 1882, requesting Part 1st of the 

 Catalogue. On motion it was ordered to be furnished. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Editor of 

 Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipsig; Accademia dei Lincei, Rome; 

 Revue Coleopterologique, Brussels; Wurttembergische Yier- 

 teljahrshefte fiir Landesgeschichte, Stuttgart ; Revue Po- 

 litique, Paris; Sociele de Geographic Commerciale, Bordeaux ; 

 Royal Academy of History, Madrid ; Cobden Club, Journal 

 of Forestry, and Nature, London ; Prof. C. Schorlemmer, 

 Manchester, England ; Royal Dublin Society; Natural History 

 Society, and Rev. E. F. Slafter, Boston ; American Journal, 

 New Haven ; Franklin Institute, the American, Prof. E. D. 

 Cope, Mr. J. Blodgett Britton, and Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr., 

 Philadelphia ; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore ; U. S. 

 National Museum, Sensus Bureau, Bureau of Education, U. S. 

 Commission of Fish and Fisheries, and the Y^ar Department, 

 Y^ashington ; Revista Cientifica Mexicana, Revista Mensual 

 Climatologica, and Ministerio de Fomento, Mexico. 



A necrological notice of the late Dr. John Y"". Draper, by 

 Dr. Wm, A. Hammond, was read. 



Prof. E. D. Cope read a paper entitled "On the Structure of 

 some Eocene Carnivorous Mammals," illustrating his subject 

 by the exhibition of various fossil remains. 



New nomination No. 956, was read. 



Pending nominations Nos. 935, and 951 to 955, were read. 

 And the meeting was adjourned. 



