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Stated Meetings February 4th, 1876. 

 Present, 17 members. 



Vice-President, Mr. Fraley, in the Chair. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Botanical Gar- 

 dens, at St. Petersburg, December 19tli, 1875, and from the 

 Albany Institute, January 28th, 1876. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the New 

 Bedford Public Library, 93,94 ; New York Historical So- 

 ciety, 95 ; and Rantoul Literary Society. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Asiatic 

 Society, Japan Branch ; R. Academy, at Brussels ; Royal 

 Astronomical Society, in London ; London Nature ; Pea- 

 body Academy at Salem ; Boston Society of N. H.; Mr. Ed- 

 mund Quincy ; American Journal of Science, and Professor 

 Marsh, of New Haven ; Albany Institute ; Society of N. S. 

 Buffalo ; American Pharmaceutical Association ; A, Journal 

 of Pharmacy ; Penn Monthly ; Medical News ; Social Science 

 Association at Philadelphia ; and U. S. Department Interior. 



The death of John C. Cresson, first Vice-President of the 

 Society, was announced by Mr. Eli K. Price, as having taken 

 place January 27th ult., aged 69 (born March 16th, 1807). 



On motion of Mr. Price, Mr. Fraley was appointed to pre- 

 pare an obituary notice of the deceased. 



Prof Hart made a statement of the arguments for and 

 against the genuineness of the " Death Mask of Shakespeare" 

 said to have been discovered in Germaii}'^, illustrating his 

 remarks by photographs of the principal portraits of Shakes- 

 peare, and of the mask in different positions. 



Mr. Chase made reference to the paper of Dr. D. Ast, in 

 the American Journal of Science and Arts for January, 1854, 

 reproduced in the American Chemist for May, 1875, on obser- 

 vations on the spectra of metals in the electric circuit. 



Pending nomination No. 792 was read. 



