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A letter was received from Mr. Cleveland Abbe, request- 

 ing missing Nos. 93, 94, dated Army Signal Office, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, March 20, 187d. 



Donations for the Library were received from the St. 

 Petersburg Botanical Society, Danish Academy, Konigsburg 

 Ph^'sical Society, the Societies at Ulm and Erlangen, Turin 

 Observatory, Vaudois Society, Bordeaux Geographical So- 

 ciety, Paris Geographical Society, Revue Politique, Nou- 

 velles Meteorologiques and Journal des Orientalistes, London 

 Astronomical Society, Meteorological Committee, and Nature, 

 Greenwich Observatory, Boston Academy and Natural His- 

 tory Society, Silliman's Journal, American Chemist, Pough- 

 keepsie Society, Buffalo Scientific Commercial, New Jersey 

 Historical Society, Penn Monthly, Pharmaceutical Associa- 

 tion, Medical News, and the Dejjartment of the Interior at 

 Washington. 



The Committee on Dr. Valentini's memoir reported that 

 they desired further time to compare the photographs with 

 the Mexican calendars in the Poinsett collection of the So- 

 ciety, w^hich was granted. 



The death of Theodore Cuyler, on the 5th inst., aged 55, 

 at Philadelphia, was announced by Mr. J. S. Price, and on 

 motion Mr. Hemy M. Philips, was appointed to prepare an 

 obituary notice of the deceased. 



The death of Hakakian Bey of Cairo, a member of this 

 Society, was reported by the Secretary. 



A thesis entitled " Physiological Action of Strychnia, by 

 Dr. Wm. H. Clapp," which had received a prize at the re- 

 cent commencement of the Medical Department of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, was offered for publication by Dr. 

 Carson through the Secretaries. 



A thesis entitled "Sanguinaria Canadensis and its Alka- 

 loids" by Robert Meade Smith, A. B. which had received a 

 prize at the same commencement, was offered for publication 

 by Dr. Francis Gurney Smith through the Secretaries. 



These communications were on motion referred to a Cora- 



