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Stated Meeting^ September 1o^ 1882. 

 Present, 4 members. 



Vice-President, Dr. Le Conte, in the Chair. 



M. Woldemar Kowalevski, member of the I. Academy of 

 St. Petersburg, was introduced. 



M. Edward Seve de Bar, accepted membership by letter, 

 dated Philadelphia, August 31, 1882. 



The death of M. Liouvllle, at Paris, Sept. 9, was announced. 



Acknowledgments of the receipt of publications were re- 

 ceived from the Ast. Gesell., Leipsig (109) ; the Cincinnati 

 Observatory (109, 111) ; the Leop. Car. Gesell. Halle am 

 Saale (109) ; and the Free Public Library of JSTew Bedford 

 (111). 



Requests for missing numbers were received from the 

 Leop. Car. Gesell. Halle am Saale (108, and pp. 483-498 of 



) ; and from the Paris Geographical Society (XIV, ii, 



and 62). 



Donations for the Library were received from, the Revista 

 Euskara ; Academy of St. Petersburg ; Ant. and Hist. So- 

 ciety at Copenhagen ; Academies at Amsterdam, Leiden, 

 Harlem, Batavia, Brussels and Munich ; Geographical So- 

 cieties at Paris and Bordeaux ; London Antiquarian Society 

 and Nature; Cambridge University Library ; Hist. Societies-: 

 of New York and New Jersey ; James Hall ; Franklin In- 

 stitute, Journal of Pharmacy and Dr. J. B. Roberts ; U. S. 

 National Museum, Fish Commission, Census Bureau and 

 Coast Survey; Am. Cham. Journal, and Johns Hopkin> 

 University ; Ohio Mechanics Institute, and Davenport Acad- 

 emy of Sciences. 



Mr. Cope exhibited and described some remarkable new 

 fossil forms from the Permian rocks of Texas, and commu- 

 nicated a " Third contribution to the history of the Verte- 

 brataof the Permian formation in Texas." 



The reading of nominations being dispensed with, the 

 meeting was adjourned. 



