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Stated Meeting, October 20th, 1876. 



Present, 20 members. 



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



Letters of acknowledgment were received from the J. Y. 

 'N. in Wlirtemberg, dated Stuttgard, June 24th (complete 

 set of T. & P) ; the Swiss Society at Berne (92-96), and Pro- 

 fessor C. E. Anthon, dated New York, Oct. 19. 



Letters of envoy were received from the Swedish Academy, 

 Stockholm, July, 1876 ; Royal Saxon Society, Leipzig, June 

 1 ; Swiss Society, Berne ; and Royal Belgian Academy, Brux- 

 elles. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Acade- 

 mies at St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Brux- 

 elles ; the Observatories at St. Petersburg, and Prague ; the 

 Geological, Geographical, Zoological, and Meteorological 

 Institutions at Vienna ; the German Geological Society, 

 Berlin ; the Saxon Society at Leipzig ; the Societies at Stutt- 

 gard, Ulm, Bern, and Lyons ; M. de Koninck at Brusselles ; 

 the Geographical and Antiquarian Societies at Paris ; the 

 Geographical Society, the Victoria Institute and Nature, 

 London ; the Glasgow Philosophical Society ; Melbourne 

 Inspector of Mines ; Canadian Journal ; Essex Institute ; 

 Boston Nat. Hist. Society, and Massachusetts Commission to 

 the Centennial ; Cambridge Museum ; American Antiqua- 

 rian Society ; Franklin Institute; Penn Monthly; Journal 

 of Pharmacy, American Journal of the Medical Sciences ; 

 and Engineer Department of the United States Army. 



Donations for the Cabinet were reported from Professor 

 Guyot, of copies of original antiquities in the Museum of 

 Princeton College, made by Professor Matile, who, with 

 these copies, returned to the Cabinet the originals loaned to 

 him from the Poinsett collection, having made copies of 

 them for the Princeton Museum. Other originals were 

 then selected to be copied and returned in due order. 



The Secretary, in exhibiting these donations, said that they 



