1883.] 643 



Stated Meeting^ Marcli 3, 1883. 



Present, 14 members. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Letters accepting membership were received from J. 0. 

 Westwood, of Oxford, England, dated February 12 ; and 

 from James Russell Lowell, dated London, Feb. 11. 



Letters of acknowledgment and envoy were read. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Geo- 

 graphical Societies of Paris and Bordeaux ; Revue Politique ; 

 Belgian Academy ; Abbe Renard ; E. Ludwig ; Royal 

 Society, Society of Antiquaries and London Nature ; Dr. Ed. 

 Jarvis ; U. S. Military Academy ; Prof. Mansfield Merri- 

 man ; Dr. C. H. F. Peters ; New Jersey Historical Society ; 

 Mr. T. H. Dudley ; Franklin Institute ; Mr. E. S. Holden ; 

 U. S. Naval Institute ; San Francisco Mercantile Library 

 Association ; American Journal of Science ; " Science " ; 

 U. S. National Museum ; Census Bureau ; C. A. Ashburner, 

 ^nd B. S. Lyman. 



Mr. Horatio Hale read a paper on the Tutelo Indians and 

 their language. (See Vol. XXI, page 1.) 



Dr. Frazer exhibited two aneroid barometers and described 

 €ome useful improvements suggested by him, executed by 

 Hicks of London. (See page 604.) 



Pending nominations Nos. 979, 981 and 984 were read. 



Prof. Cope described as preposterous certain current news- 

 paper explanations of the cause of the extinction of fossil 

 mammalia in the West, by cold and by drought. 



And the meeting was adjourned. 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XX. 113. 4c. PRIXTED MAY 2, 1883. 



