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Program of the First Anniversary of the Tacoma Academy 

 of Sciences, April 28, 1892. 



A circular letter from the Mus(5e D'Oaxaca, Mexico, an- 

 nouncing the death of M. le General Mariano Jimenez, Gouv- 

 erneur constitutional de I'Btat de Michoacan d'Ocampo, 

 February 28, 1892. 



A letter from Mrs. Caroline Lewis, Secretary of the Loan 

 Exhibition in connection with the University Lecture Associ- 

 ation, Philadelphia, returning thanks to the Society for the 

 loan of the busts of La Fayette and Franklin. 



The following donations to the cabinet were received : 



A photograph for the Society's album from Charles E. 

 Sajous, M.D., Philadelphia. 



A framed engraving of David Rittenhouse, LL.D., by 

 E. Savage, Philadelphia, 1796, after the portrait by C. W. 

 Peale, from Miss Emily Phillips. 



Letters of envoy were received from the K. K. Astrono- 

 misch-Meteorologisches Observatorium, Triest, Austria ; Bath 

 and West and Southern Counties Society, Bath, England ; 

 Department of Science and Art, London, England ; Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, Washington, D. C; Museo Nacional de 

 Buenos Ay res. 



Letters of acknowledgment of diploma were received from 

 Rt. Rev. William Stubbs, Oxford, England ; Prof. E. Mascart, 

 Paris, France ; Marquis Antonio De Gregorio, Palermo, Italy ; 

 Sir George G. Stokes, Cambridge, England ; Mr. Charles God- 

 frey Leland, London, England ; Mr. John Fulton, Johnstown, 

 Pa.; Prof. Henry Willis, Philadelphia; Dr. W. J. Hoffman, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Royal 

 Society of Victoria, Melbourne (136) ; Colonial Museum, 

 Haarlem, Holland (136); Dr. Aristides Brezina, Vienna (136); 

 Prof Peter P. v. Tunner, Leoben, Austria (136) ; Gesellschaft 

 fiir Erdkunde, Prof F. Reuleaux, Berlin (136); Royal Saxon 

 Society of Sciences (128, 135) ; Dr. Julius Platzmann, Leip- 

 zig (136) ; Union Geographique du Nord de la France, Donai, 

 France (96-130 and Catalog, Parts i-iv) ; Ecole Nationale 



