■^•^■^ [Sept. 2, 



announcing the death of its Vice-President, Prof. Cornm. 

 Giovanni Flechia, June 3, 1892. 



A circular from the Committee for the Erection of a Mon- 

 ument to the Memory of M. A. de Quatrefages, inviting sub- 

 scriptions for that purpose. 



A circular from the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, offering 

 its medal and £25 for the best communication containing the 

 i^esults of original research or observation upon the various 

 subjects named. 



An invitation from the Buffalo Historical Society to the 

 unveiling of the statue of Red Jacket, erected by that Society, 

 to take place June 22, 1892. 



An invitation from the Deutsche Anthropologische Gesell- 

 schaft, to attend the Twenty-third Congress, to take place at 

 Ulm, August 1 to 3, 1892. 



A circular from the American Chemical Society, New 

 York, announcing the Fifth General Meeting, to be held at 

 Rochester, N. Y., August 16 and 17, 1892. 



A program of meetings and excursions of the Sixth Ses- 

 sion of the Congres Geologique International, to take place at 

 Zurich, in 1894. 



Announcement of the Tenth Session of the Congres Inter- 

 nationale des Orientalistes, to be held at Lisbon, September 

 23 to October 1, 1892. 



A letter from Mr. Lorin Blodgett, dated Philadelphia, July 

 16, 1892, enclosing memorandum of a project devised by his 

 ancestor, Samuel Blodgett, for the formation of a National 

 University, to be erected in Washington, D. C. 



A letter from C. II. Hart, Esq., giving reasons to show that 

 the portrait labeled Francis Ilopkinson was really that of 

 Samuel Vaughan. The communication was referred to the 

 Curators. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Australasian Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, Sydney; Naturfor- 

 sche Gesellschaft, Dorpat, Russia ; Comite Geologique, Ob- 

 servatoire Physique Central, St. Petersburg; Institut Meteor- 

 ologique de Roumaine, Bucarest; Societe R. Norvegienne des 



