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October 21, 1892, having been designated by the President 

 of the United States and by the Governor of the State of Penn- 

 sylvania as a public holiday, no meeting of the American 

 Philosophical Society was held on that evening. 



Stated Meetiwj^ November 4, 1892. 



Present 14 members. 



Vice-President, Dr. Ruschexberger, in the Chair. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



An invitation from the Naturforschende Gesellschaft des 

 Osterlandes, Altenburg, to be present at its seventy-fifth anni- 

 versary, October 8 and 9, 1892. 



A circular from the University of Padua, announcing the 

 commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the con- 

 nection of Galilfeo Galilnei with the University. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Geological Survey 

 of India, Calcutta; K. P. Mcteorologisches Institut, K. Geolo- 

 gische Landesanstalt und Bergakademie, Editors of "Latein- 

 ische Litteraturdenkmaler," Berlin ; Schlesische Gesellschaft 

 fiir Yaterlandische Cultur, Breslau ; Department of the Inte- 

 rior, Washington D. C. ; Direccion General de Estadistica, 

 Mexico, 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Geo- 

 logical Survey of India, Calcutta (137) ; Dr. Otto Donner, Hel- 

 singfors, Finland (136-138); Socidte Imp. Mineralogique (137) ; 

 Eussian Chemical Society (137, 138) ; Central Physical Observ- 

 atory (138) ; Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 

 (138, and Trans., xvi, 1 and 2); R. Norwegian Society of 

 Science, Throndhjein (137, 138) i Societe R. de Geographic, 

 Antwerp, Belgium (125-130, 136-138) ; Soci^t^ Hongroise de 

 Geographic, Budapest (137, 138) ; Academy of Science, Cra- 

 cow, Austria (L37); Naturhistorisches Landesmuseum von 



