^'^^ [March 16, 



Stated Meetiwj, March IG, ISSS. 



Present, 16 members. 



President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Letters of envoy and acknowledgment were read. 



Donations for the Library were reported from the Societies 

 at Moscow, Konig-sberg, St. Gall, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden,, 

 Bordeaux and Cherbourg ; the Observatories at St. Peters- 

 burg, Cambridge, Mass., and Mt. Hamilton ; the German Geo- 

 logical Society, Physical Society, and W. Franzen of Berlin ; 

 the Belgian Academy, Bureau of Statistics, and Bureau of 

 the Interior ; the Lyons Society of Agriculture and Musee 

 Guimet ; the Flora Batava; the Society of Geography, Anti- 

 quaries, Anthropology, and Geology of Paris ; the Revue d& 

 I'Histoire des Religions and Revue Politique ; the Royal In- 

 stitute, Victoria Institute, Met. C. R. Society ; Royal Geo- 

 graphical, Royal Asiatic, Geological and Zoological Socie- 

 ties; London i^ature ; Boston National History Society;. 

 "Science"; N. Y. Linnean Society; Index Medicus ; 

 American Journal of Pharmacy; II. C. Lewis; Public 

 Building Commission, Phil. ; U. S. Coast Survey, Bureau of 

 Education, Interior Department, National Museum; Missouri 

 Historical Society ; Hamilton A. Hill, of Boston ; P. P» 

 Sharpies (Copy of the Monthly Mag. for Jan. 1784) ; and 

 Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr. 



An Obituary notice of Dr. Krauth, was read by Dr. 

 Muhlenberg. (See page 613.) 



The death of the oldest member of the Society, Mr. Henry 

 Seybert, at Philadelphia, March 3, aged 82, was announced 

 by Mr. J. S. Price ; and the President was requested to select 

 a suitable person to prepare an obituary notice of the de- 

 ceased. 



Dr. Brinton read a paper entitled " On Mediaeval Sermon 

 Books and Stories," by Prof. T. F. Crane, of Cornell Univer- 

 sity. (See Vol. XXI, No. 114.) 



