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respecting spare copies of the Census Reports of 1860 and 

 1870. 



Donations for the Library were announced from the New 

 Zealand Institute ; Sydney Department of Mines ; M. Bar- 

 rande ; Aug. Tischner ; L. Riitimeyer ; the N. H. S., Bamberg ; 

 the Gazetta Numismatica, at Como ; Revue Politique ; Revista 

 Euskara ; London Nature, C. W. King and C. Piazzi Smyth; 

 the Massachusetts Historical Society ; Harvard College Ob- 

 servatory ; N. J. Historical Society ; Pennsylvania Historical 

 Society ;• Journal Medical Sciences ; Smithsonian Institution ; 

 U. S. Geological and Geographical Survey, Signal Service and 

 Census Bureaus, and Surgeon General's office ; University of 

 Virginia; American Journal of Forestry at Cincinnati ; Ameri- 

 can Antiquarian at Chicago ; Mexican National Observatory, 

 and a copy of Her^era in four volumes from the library of 

 the late Dr. Allen Yoorhees Lesley, of New Castle, Del. 



The death of Mr. John Downes at Washington, Sept. 27th, 

 aged 84, was announced by the Secretary. 



The death of Dr. Friedrich Wohler, of Gottingen, Sept. 

 23d, aged 82, was announced by letter. 



Dr. Horatio C. Wood offered for publication in the Trans- 

 actions a memoir, entitled " On the nature of Diphtheria, a 

 clinical and experimental research, by Drs. H. C. Wood and 

 H. F. ForQcad." 



On motion it was referred for examination to a committee 

 consisting of Drs. Horn, Ruschenberger and Henry Hartshorne. 



Commodore E, Y. McCauley offered for jDublication in the 

 Transactions a Dictionary of the Egyptian language. 



On motion it was referred for examination to a committee 

 consisting of Mr. Lesley, Dr. LeConte, Dr. Robbins and Mr. 

 Phillips. 



Prof. I. C. White's communication on the Geology of the 

 Cheat river, in West Virginia, was read by the Secretary. 



Prof. C. W. Claypole's notes on the Commingling of fossil 

 forms, the discovery of Holoptychius Americanus low in the 

 Chemung, at Leroy, in Bradford Co., Pa., and on a mistake in 



