110 [Feb. 5, 



Stated Meeting^ February 5, 1892. 



Present, 8 members. 



Dr. Morris in the Chair. 



The following correspondence was submitted : 



A letter from Commander F. M. Green, U. S. A., giving suf- 

 ficient reasons for declining the membership in the Society to 

 which he had been elected. 



A circular from the Manchester Geographical Society, an- 

 nouncing the decease of its President, the Duke of Devonshire. 



A letter from Gustav Fock, bookfeller in Leipzig, offering for 

 sale the library of the late Prof. Zarnke for 45,000 marks. 



Accessions to the Library were announced from the Royal 

 Society of South Australia, Prof. II. Y. L. Brown, Adelaide ; 

 Linnean Society of jST. S. Wales, Sydney ; Prof. H. H. Risley, 

 Calcutta ; Section fur Naturkunde O. T. C, Vienna ; K. 

 danske Geografiske Selskab, Copenhagen ; Gesellschaft fiir 

 Erdkunde, Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft, Horticultur- 

 Gesellschaft, Messrs. Friedlander & Sous, Berlin ; K. Sachsische 

 Meteorologische Institut, Chemnitz ; Societe des Sciences 

 Naturelles, Fribourg ; Verein fiir Erdkunde, Halle a. S. ; 

 Verein fiir Thiiringische Geschichte und Alterturaskunde, 

 Jena; K. Sachsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Leipzig ; 

 K. B. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich ; R. Societatas 

 Scientiarum, Upsal ; Etat Independant du Congo, Bruxelles ; 

 Soci<ite Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles, Lausanne ; Socidte 

 de Geographic, Lille; Uuiversitc de Lyon ; Society de L'En- 

 seignement Superieur, Marquis de Nadaillac, Paris ; R. Aca- 

 demia de la Historia, R. Academia de Ciencias, etc., Madrid ; 

 Meteorological Council, R. Statistical Society, Society of Arts, 

 Royal Society, Editors of the "Geological Magazine," Mr. 

 Frederick Arthur Crisp, London ; Agricultural Experiment 

 Stations at Bangor, Me., Amhenst, Mass., Kingston, R. I., Au- 

 burn, Ala., College Station, Tex., Corvallis, Oreg., Laramie, 

 Wyo. ; National Civil Service Reform League, Boston ; 



