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Stated 3Ieeting, July 21, 1876. 



Present, 6 members. 



Dr. LeConte in the Chair. 



The reading of the minutes was dispensed with. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from Mr. C. 

 E. Dutton, dated Omaha (97), and Mr. A. H. Worthen, 

 Warsaw, 111. (97). 



A letter of envoy was received from the Smithsonian 

 Institution, dated Washington, July 20. 



A letter was received from Prof. Charles E. Anthon, 

 dated College of the City of Xew York, June 29, 1876, with 

 the coin and description referred to in his letter of Febru- 

 ary 11th, read at the meeting of February 18, 1876. 



A letter was received from Mr. Charles A. Kesselmeyer, 

 dated 1 Peter Street, Manchester, England, 21st June, 1876, 

 presenting to the Society a copy of his "Calendarium Per- 

 petuum Mobile," and enclosing a photograph with an ex- 

 planation of the same. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Berlin 

 Physical Society ; German Geological Society ; Royal Prus- 

 sian Academy ; Dr. L. Wedekunde ; Bamburg, Freiburg, 

 and Chemnitz Niitural History Societies ; F. Kramer ; Ulm 

 Antiquarian Society ; Royal Academy of Belgium ; Royal 

 Academy, Amsterdam ; Ketherland Botanical Society at 

 Nimegen ; Paris Geographical Society; Bureau des Longi- 

 tude ; Annales des Mines ; Academy of Medicine ; Editors 

 of Nouvelles Meteorologiques and Revue Politique, Paris ; 

 Col. E. Belleville; Turin University Observatory; G. Maz- 

 zola; Prof. A. Dorna ; Society of Arts, Victoria Institute, 

 ■Royal Asiatic^ and Astronomical Societies, and Nature, 

 London ; Royal Society, Tasmania ; Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences, Connecticut ; Silliman & Dana ; Yale College ; Mr. 

 Osman Fisher ; Essex Institute, Salem ; Peabody Institute ; 

 Editors of American Chemist ; Dr. C. H. Berendt ; Pharraa- 



