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Stated Meeting^ August 18, 1876. 



Present, 6 members. 



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



The minutes of the last meeting were read. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, TJ. S. Coast Survey Office, London Meteorological 

 Office, Boston Society of Natural History, and Gen. Henry 

 L. Abbot. 



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Bos- 

 ton Society of Natural History, July 28th, (XV, ii.; 94, 97) ; 

 Royal Astronomical Society, London, July 11th (XY, ii.; 62, 

 88); East Tennessee University, Knoxville, July 22d (97); 

 and various libraries and members receiving Proceedings 



No. 97. 



A letter was received from Prof. Gr. A. Matile requesting 

 the loan of archaeological specimens from the Cabinet to 

 make casts from them for the Princeton Museum. 



Photographs of Prof. Thomas C. Archer and Dr. H.R. 

 Goppert were received for the Album. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Acad- 

 emies at Berlin and Bruselles ; the Congress of Naturalists 

 at Berlin ; the Societies at Marburg, Gorlitz, Bremen, and 

 Bordeaux; Zoological Garden at Frankfort; Geographical 

 Society, Editors of the Revue Politique, and M. P. Fre- 

 raeaux, at Paris ; Royal Astronomical Society, Mr. T. H. 

 Tizard, Mr. J. M. Stuart, and Editors of Nature, London ; 

 Geological Survey of Canada; Silliman & Dana, New 

 Haven ; Editors of the Penn Monthly, Medical News, and 

 American Journal of Pharmacy, Philadelphia ; Gen. H. L. 

 Abbot ; IT. S; Coast Survey ; Dr. Newberry, and the Rio Jan- 

 eiro Museum. 



Mr. Chase remarked upon tlie closeness of agreement 

 between the estimates of solar radiating force derived from 

 Crook's Radiometer and from the Nebular Hypothesis. 



