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will allow. It is not probable that I can find time to prepare any 



communication. 



" I understand from Prof. Goodale tliqt your Society may, as a 



body or by many of your members, visit Cambridge together upon 



one of your days of session. Should you do so I shall be glad to 



receive the members here at any convenient hour in the afternoon, 



and would ask them to take a cup of tea with Mrs. Gray and 



myself. 



" Hoping the Society may do us this honor, 



" I remain, dear sir, 



" Very truly yours, 



'' Asa Gray." 



Prof. George L. Goodale invited the Society to hold one of its 

 sessions in Harvard Hall, and to visit the botanical laboratory of 

 Harvard College. 



It was voted to accept the kind invitations of Professor Gray 

 and Professor Goodale for Wednesday afternoon, with the cordial 

 thanks of the Society, and to hold an afternoon session on Dec. 

 30, at 2.30 P.M., in Harvard Hall. 



The following letter was read : — 



" PlIILADEI-PIllA, Oct. 21, 1S85. 



"Dear Dr. Minot : — 



" I believe I neglected to refer, in my last, to your proposition 

 that the ' Naturalist ' become the official organ, or medium of 

 publication, of the Society of Naturalists for the E.U.S. 



" For my own part I should be glad to have it become so. 



Already its department of microscopy publishes material which 



covers a large department of the Society's work, and tlie rest of 



the Journal is, of course, open to anything that docs not enter that 



department. 



'' Very truly yoiu's, 



" E. D. Cope." 



The Secretary announced that the Executive Committee had 

 carefully considered the subject, and considered it undesirable to 

 maintain any other official publication than tlie "Records" of 

 the Society; but tiiev liope that the members will all feci inclined 



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