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Donations for tlie Library were received from the Acad- 

 emies at Copenhagen, Brussels, Rome, and Philadel[)hia ; 

 the Geological, Zoological, and Anthropological Societies at 

 Vienna ; the Art Union at Ulm ; the Geographical Society, 

 Editors of Nouvelles Meteorologiques and Revue Polit- 

 ique, at Paris; the Antiquarian Society, Dr. Joseph Prest- 

 wick, and the Editors of ]S"ature, in London ; the Melbourne 

 Mining Survey; Maine Historical Society ; Essex Institute ; 

 Dr. IL Carrington ; Boston Society of Natural History ; 

 Hon. R. C. Winthrop; Dr. S. A. Green; Silliman & Dana, 

 New Haven ; Editors of the American Chemist ; Prof. G. 

 A. ^[atile, Franklin Institute, College of Surgeons, and 

 Editors of the Penn Monthly, Medical News, and Journal 

 of Pharmacy, in Philadelphia; U. S. Departments of War 

 and State, Surgeon General, and Signal Service Bureau, 

 Washington ; Editor of the Scientific Monthly at Toledo ; 

 U. Sterapel at Chicago ; and Dr. Jarvis of Dorchester, 

 Massachusetts. 



A photograph of Dr. T. S. Hunt was presented for inser- 

 tion in the Album. 



A letter from Prof. J. Henry, requesting attention to a 

 letter from the Holland Society of Science, was referred to 

 the Librarian with power to supply deficiencies in the series 

 of A. P. S. Publications in the Library of that Society. 



A letter from the Freiburg Natural History Society was 

 referred to the Librarian with power to supply Proc. 89. 



A letter respecting deficiencies was received from the 

 Society at Wiirtemburg and referred to the Librarian. 



A letter from D. S. Sheldon, Librarian of Griswold Col- 

 lege, Davenport, Iowa, asking for Dr. Hor. Wood's memoir 

 on Myriapoda was referred to Dr. Wood. 



A circular was received from the Societe des Voyages at 

 Paris. 



Mr. Lesley exhibited a neatly executed colored geological 

 lithograph map of Mr. B. S. Lyman's Ofiicial Survey of the 

 Island of Yesso, as the first work of the kind done in 

 Japan. 



